because guns and mechs and boobs are cool and righteous; because a norm about the use of indirect vs direct description is both a key into a certain kind of classed, postured writing and also a decision about what is important between subtext v text. immediacy is sometimes vital, you can talk directly to experience without anxieties and second guessing it, the book also does have implication and suggestion and deep interiority (that routinely people seem to miss lmao) but not for the things it deems it important to be direct about. ujd is demanding on a reader but on the problem of 'how do you objectively relate to life transformed' rather than 'how do you subjectively relate to a partially known Other'. it just doesn't care about the same thing! both are interesting questions but i like it sticking to the first and using 'show dont tell' as a rule when you're so clear about what you do care about is just a bit basic