tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174931926240040143.post4729186445859390107..comments2023-11-05T09:52:43.926+00:00Comments on Sonofabook: Settling down to write (2): reading into writingcharleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16580118367334638930noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9174931926240040143.post-62809595789106076682012-05-10T12:36:09.090+01:002012-05-10T12:36:09.090+01:00I’ve never quite worked out to what extent one rea...I’ve never quite worked out to what extent one reads different forms differently. ‘Readers read down the middle of the page,’ they told me when I was (almost) learning journalism, and I’ve certainly had that sensation when (almost) reading a great many contemporary novels. Baggier novels slow you down a bit. I’ve learned to enjoy the sensation of going from side to side, more across, perhaps, than down. It feels like only last week that I started reading the odd poem. One of the sensations I had in reading Days and Nights in W12 was of the opacity of reality without the (perhaps entirely imagined) opacity of poetry.Mase Escasihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13841179212941727277noreply@blogger.com