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#APStogether I've been reading The Turn of the Screw along with everyone, but not tweeting, because I'm chicken.
#APStogether I always try to finish reading something because I'm so sure I'll get something wrong.
#APStogether Also, in the past I've always struggled with James. The prose I love allows me to swim in it; with James, I've at best skipped along the surface.
#APStogether As in, I struggle to understand James. As though he's writing music using a notation I can't read.
#APStogether But then a few days ago someone tweeted that he wrote through dictation. & then I started to read the sentences aloud but in my head, & I understood everything & could hear the music.
#APStogether As though previously I'd been stubbornly trying to dance a waltz with someone to music written in 4/4 time.
#APStogether Now I have a question for readers! A few months back (a lifetime ago) there was a Twitter conversation about people who had running interior monologues vs those who thought in images.
#APStogether This has made me realize that when I read, I don't "hear" the language. My relationship to it is somehow more obscure, though language is just about the most important thing to me.
#APStogether So I'm wondering about other people. Do you hear each word in your head, as though it's spoken? Do you see the action as it unfolds? Is it something else?
