Reading styles

[Keith Davis]

This sounds familiar. I've noticed this, too.

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Happens to me too....I feel like a have a new accent......boy did my
> letters get full of Proustian- length sentences when I read him....a kind
> of progressive unwinding ---SEE what Pynchon can now do!
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Nov 7, 2012, at 9:27 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I've found myself beginning to think and write in a style similar to an
> author's voice when reading a great book, and not intentionally.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Something occurred to me as a result of a discussion off-list, and
>> connecting with a previous discussion about the "Pynchon blurb list". I'm
>> reading something that presents certain difficulties, and I'm enjoying it,
>> and part of the reason is that it's making me change my reading style, the
>> same thing that happened when I first read Mr. P and other writers that
>> I've come to love and respect.
>>
>> I made a comment about reading some of the books that our esteemed Mr. P
>> had written blurbs for and someone commented that they all sucked, which I
>> found both amusing and interesting (if there's a difference). Now, with the
>> current discussion, I'm wondering if our fearless leader blurbed some of
>> those books because they gave him that same experience, of causing him to
>> have to read in a different way, possibly expanding the possibilities,
>> feeding his curiosity and sense of literary adventurousness. Just a
>> possibly random thought.
>>
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