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A moving object
September 14, 2007    File under: Intake
Even in prose, sound has to be able to stand up to meaning. You cannot be a writer without a sense that sound, in words, comes to ballast meaning, and that the weight it is then endowed with can lead it legitimately at times into strange centrifugal excursions. Writing, like reading, is movement, and as a result the word behaves like a moving object whose mass, however reduced, can never be taken for granted, and can noticeably inflect the direction.

—Julien Gracq, Reading, Writing

Posted by Jake Adam York at September 14, 2007 3:04 PM



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