Reading styles

[Keith Davis]

Mark, Are you suggesting that trying to copy someone's writing style is the
way to read better? Just to be clear about the question. I know that as
musicians, particularly jazz musicians, one thing guys(and girls) do is
copy the playing of others that we respect to learn what they're doing.
Some g's (girls and guys?) are obsessed with "transcribing solos". I did
some of that myself, and it is a great learning tool.

Jochen, still have to get to Far Tortuga. Thanks for the reminder. What
time does the boat leave?

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 12:40 PM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>wrote:

> Two things, Mark: Firstly, Keith's reported comment by someone, "that
> they all sucked", the books Pynchon wrote blurbs for. I certainly have
> not read them all, like that someone obviously, but only the four by
> Fariña, Piercy, Matthiessen, De Lillo and can say that Far Tortuga was
> a wonderful experience and the other three were certainly very good,
> not one that sucked, in my eyes. They didn't change my reading style,
> perhaps my reading taste: Far Tortuga certainly widened it.
>
> And after reading nearly everything an author living in Vienna wrote
> (the one who started a book of about 400 pages about Hitler and the
> nazis in 1933 with the sentence: "Mir faellt zu Hitler nichts ein",
> roughly translated as: Nothing occurs to me about Hitler) no other
> author was able to change my (German) writing style. My English has no
> style to talk (or write home) about.
>
> 2012/11/7 Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> > I'll go further with Morris's ob by asking another of those plist
> questions
> > that sometimes lead to terrif discussion. Do we think this is a good
> thing?
> > A better way to read, as it were?
> >
> > I will reveal my bias and say YES. I argue it shows we feel the words,
> the
> > writing, and not just "comprehend" it. so to speak. But I would,
> wouldn't I?
> >
> > What about a counter argument that shows we are not strong enough to
> resist
> > a very high-level "kind of" advertising? (I said "kind of" just FYI but
> > carry on)
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On Nov 7, 2012, at 10:14 AM, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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:
> >>
> >>
> >> 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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> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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>



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