Reading styles

[jochen stremmel]

At "Daybreak".

2012/11/7 Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>:
> 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?
>
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> 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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