To help yr reading (a preface to nonsense):
From Listening to Reading by Stephen Ratcliffe:
“the sound of a poem’s words and their visual shape on the page are interconnected: that the sounds of words is, literally, an acoustic shape (the shape of words in air), their shape literally a visual sound (letters waiting to become sound)”
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“What happens when the words of a poem are put into the air by a voice or voices intoning syllables at certain precisely measured pitches held certain precisely indicated durations? And how is it that when the words of a poem are sung the result in its effect is more than either of its constituent components, its words, its music?”
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“The music makes adjustment to our perception of text, what we think we hear when we read those words.”
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Please leave yr inhibitions at home on Tuesday (for a variety of both legal & not-so-legal methods to this effect feel free to contact me)
Yeder mensch hot zeiner aigeneh meshugahss … er bolbet narishkeiten.
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