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?
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