06-17-2011, 09:23 AM
That is ideal - to read, to hear, to read again, and perhaps memorise, though that would be a minor miracle for me now, beyond the odd telling phrase. However, I should not have the arrogance to expect that that would be the future itinerary for anything I might write!
Still related to writing, I have become interested in the effect of poems spoken with very great care putting due weight on each syllable, speaking very clearly and slightly slowly. The effect on stress is fascinating. It does not switch, but it does fade, almost to the point where you could imagine English using the classical/French system of going by length. It means that when writing, one is entitled to have in mind how a thing should sound. I suppose one could even use some sort of notation, like Pinter's beat marks ('), which made his name, by mistake. (He put them to help the actors breathing, but the actors thought it was a little pause, and so Pinteresque pauses were born!)
Still related to writing, I have become interested in the effect of poems spoken with very great care putting due weight on each syllable, speaking very clearly and slightly slowly. The effect on stress is fascinating. It does not switch, but it does fade, almost to the point where you could imagine English using the classical/French system of going by length. It means that when writing, one is entitled to have in mind how a thing should sound. I suppose one could even use some sort of notation, like Pinter's beat marks ('), which made his name, by mistake. (He put them to help the actors breathing, but the actors thought it was a little pause, and so Pinteresque pauses were born!)