August 6th, 2010 / 9:37 pm
Snippets
Snippets
Reynard Seifert—
Reading, you speak to yourself inside your head?
How bout when you’re writing?
Where does it go?
Hmm?
-
Archives
- January 2023
- February 2022
- September 2021
- February 2021
- January 2021
- December 2020
- November 2020
- October 2020
- September 2020
- August 2020
- August 2017
- July 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- June 2014
- May 2014
- April 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- December 2013
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- July 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
- October 2012
- September 2012
- August 2012
- July 2012
- June 2012
- May 2012
- April 2012
- March 2012
- February 2012
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- October 2011
- September 2011
- August 2011
- July 2011
- June 2011
- May 2011
- April 2011
- March 2011
- February 2011
- January 2011
- December 2010
- November 2010
- October 2010
- September 2010
- August 2010
- July 2010
- June 2010
- May 2010
- April 2010
- March 2010
- February 2010
- January 2010
- December 2009
- November 2009
- October 2009
- September 2009
- August 2009
- July 2009
- June 2009
- May 2009
- April 2009
- March 2009
- February 2009
- January 2009
- December 2008
- November 2008
- October 2008
- September 2008
-
Meta
yes. yes.
the other day I was reading a book and I stopped and made eye contact with myself in a mirror and tried to see if I could tell what I was thinking. I couldn’t. that was a weird day.
yes and yes. what do you mean where does it go?
my left nipple
If one were to consider the subject at hand [it] a conceptual language structure (linked only with writing) similar to that of an intermittently identifiable language (linked only to one’s mentally generated silent readings of text), what exactly are we being led to question?
The value in questioning the pathway of [it]?
I think Reynard is seeking a point of relocation. Do human beings unconsciously relocate the unused patterns of a conceptual language structure even after such patterns/ideas have been written out on paper? Where (within the mind) does the mentally generated writing-language go?
Writers do not immediately (mentally) delete/negate good ideas or bad ideas during the writing process, do they? I mean, of course, completely erasing an idea from one’s mind. Doesn’t that take years of repeated repressing?
I feel writers are capable of recalling specifically bad ideas, despite having never written down the aforementioned specifically bad ideas.
Sorry, I’ve been drinking.
We know.
No and yes. I see words sometimes when I talk and think.
I speak to myself (in my head) a lot to make sense of what I’m thinking, and I’ll even put a book down for a few minutes at a time to connect things point by point, if I care enough about the book and if it seems to care, too, about something outside of itself. I have a hard time retaining information if I don’t actively put words around it, or put my own around it at any rate. It’s best if I do it out loud, but I don’t, not even when I’m alone.
More than that, though, when I read I only go as fast as I would if I were to read the book aloud, and I try to hear it the same way as I would, as close as any approximation can come to the faint thing of a spoken word. I used to be a fast reader, but I can’t do it anymore. I like to go sentence by sentence, word by word, even in crime novels and sci-fi thrillers, anything but memos and press releases.
OMG the new Herzog movie is online…
Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloe Sevigny, That Latino Guy From Crash, and of course, a fucking dwarf.
(Does everyone read at the speed of an audiobook, then?)
yes. yes.
the other day I was reading a book and I stopped and made eye contact with myself in a mirror and tried to see if I could tell what I was thinking. I couldn’t. that was a weird day.
yes and yes. what do you mean where does it go?
my left nipple
If one were to consider the subject at hand [it] a conceptual language structure (linked only with writing) similar to that of an intermittently identifiable language (linked only to one’s mentally generated silent readings of text), what exactly are we being led to question?
The value in questioning the pathway of [it]?
I think Reynard is seeking a point of relocation. Do human beings unconsciously relocate the unused patterns of a conceptual language structure even after such patterns/ideas have been written out on paper? Where (within the mind) does the mentally generated writing-language go?
Writers do not immediately (mentally) delete/negate good ideas or bad ideas during the writing process, do they? I mean, of course, completely erasing an idea from one’s mind. Doesn’t that take years of repeated repressing?
I feel writers are capable of recalling specifically bad ideas, despite having never written down the aforementioned specifically bad ideas.
Sorry, I’ve been drinking.
We know.
I speak to myself (in my head) a lot to make sense of what I’m thinking, and I’ll even put a book down for a few minutes at a time to connect things point by point, if I care enough about the book and if it seems to care, too, about something outside of itself. I have a hard time retaining information if I don’t actively put words around it, or put my own around it at any rate. It’s best if I do it out loud, but I don’t, not even when I’m alone.
More than that, though, when I read I only go as fast as I would if I were to read the book aloud, and I try to hear it the same way as I would, as close as any approximation can come to the faint thing of a spoken word. I used to be a fast reader, but I can’t do it anymore. I like to go sentence by sentence, word by word, even in crime novels and sci-fi thrillers, anything but memos and press releases.
OMG the new Herzog movie is online…
Michael Shannon, Willem Dafoe, Chloe Sevigny, That Latino Guy From Crash, and of course, a fucking dwarf.
(Does everyone read at the speed of an audiobook, then?)
Yes I am speaking with myself while of writing.
…
And the same about me.
hey paul, you read my mind
somewhere between the ideas
1) write in your own voice
2) reading as internalizing other voices
3) writing the same story over and over is a way of understanding your voice, what you have to say about yourself and other literature, art, etc
i feel there is some process going on there that hasn’t been fully explored or has and i dunno about it, also i’ve been thinking on the toilet in zizek’s pervert’s guide to cinema (cinema as presentation of the subconscious voice internalized by cinema i.e. where does it go? it goes on screen. but is that all there is? rabbit hole, blue pill red pill, etc) and its relation to literature, maybe someone who’s actually read zizek has some insights or something, i am interested in sights
strikes, i have a similar experience, my dad bought me this book on speed reading when i was a kid, and i did it for a while and then began to re-appreciate the language itself and so became the very very slow reader i am today
Yes I am speaking with myself while of writing.
…
And the same about me.
hey paul, you read my mind
somewhere between the ideas
1) write in your own voice
2) reading as internalizing other voices
3) writing the same story over and over is a way of understanding your voice, what you have to say about yourself and other literature, art, etc
i feel there is some process going on there that hasn’t been fully explored or has and i dunno about it, also i’ve been thinking on the toilet in zizek’s pervert’s guide to cinema (cinema as presentation of the subconscious voice internalized by cinema i.e. where does it go? it goes on screen. but is that all there is? rabbit hole, blue pill red pill, etc) and its relation to literature, maybe someone who’s actually read zizek has some insights or something, i am interested in sights
strikes, i have a similar experience, my dad bought me this book on speed reading when i was a kid, and i did it for a while and then began to re-appreciate the language itself and so became the very very slow reader i am today
or not
or not
There’s more to life than writing and analyzing writing peeps.
There’s more to life than writing and analyzing writing peeps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ_R-G_i4Xk&feature=related
i get really scared when i look in the mirror when I am writing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ_R-G_i4Xk&feature=related
i get really scared when i look in the mirror when I am writing