Troubles
the trouble with improvising is it's utterly evanescent. you do a great show, and the very instant it's complete--it's gone forever. the thrill has no echo.
the trouble with reading is it's utterly private. you read a delightful bit, and the delight has no one else to resonate against. unshared laughter is really only half-laughter. the thrill has no echo.
of course, both of those troubles are part of the glory of their respective arts. i guess it's just a little disconcerting how being something always goes along with not being something else.
the trouble with reading is it's utterly private. you read a delightful bit, and the delight has no one else to resonate against. unshared laughter is really only half-laughter. the thrill has no echo.
of course, both of those troubles are part of the glory of their respective arts. i guess it's just a little disconcerting how being something always goes along with not being something else.
Posted by Jeff on Monday, March 13, 2006
3 Comments:
Not quite so with reading! You should see Patti and I when we're reading in the same room. One gigles and the other stops to share in the goodness of the other's book. ... so HA! I mean... ummm...
"Well, sir, if things are real, they're always there."
"Are they?"
Name that quote!
well, i knew it was from the Chronicles of Narnia, and i was pretty sure Peter asked the question, but i'm afraid i cheated with a glance at google to get the right book and context. very apt.
in a similar vein, i read this recently:
"And even thus is our speech accomplished by signs emitting a sound; but this, again, is not perfected unless one word pass away when it has sounded its part, in order that another may succeed it."
that whole chapter is very good.
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