Monday, March 31, 2014
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Reading In Nihilo
"If art is made ex nihilo—out of nothing—then reading is done in nihilo, or into nothing. Fiction unfolds through your imagination in interconnected layers of meaning that lift the heavy weight of unyielding facts from your shoulders. It speaks its own private language of endless nuance and inflection. A tale is a reassuringly mortalized, if you will, piece of the oceanic infinity out of which we came, and back into which we will go."
http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/11/should-literature-be-useful.html
Monday, March 24, 2014
Musical analogy to reading
Reading music is much like reading books. When the reader knows how to read the "notes" and is an experiened "player" the nuances of interpretation of the notes can greatly affect the sound and meaning of a piece. Singers call this phrasing.
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