question #1
when i read a book, i feel like i understand how the author intends me to read the book. there’s a tone that i can hear. i can hear’s the author’s voice in my head when i read. it all falls apart when i read music. for example, sometimes in books characters sing. the author can do nothing but offer the lyrics. but i have no melody. and no matter how much i try, i can never find it. why? and how can i fix me?
P.S. i thought you might enjoy an old favorite of mine…
Sing to your fledglings again,
Mother, oh lift up your head!
Evil that plagued us is slain, Death in the garden lies dead. Terror that hid in the roses is impotent — flung on the dung-hill and dead! Who hath delivered us, who? Tell me his nest and his name. Rikki, the valiant, the true, Tikki, with eyeballs of flame, Rik-tikki-tikki, the ivory-fanged, the hunger with eye- balls of flame. Give him the Thanks of the birds, Bowing with tail-feathers spread! Praise him with nightingale-words — Nay, I will praise him instead. Hear! I will sing you the praise of the bottle-tailed Rikki, with eyeballs of red!
