And very well.

Ever hear Victor Borge's lampoon of ~ audio "punctuation" (in which he uses noises to insert ", !, ?, etc.) ?? 'Funny' - yes, but.. he was too Great a teller of stories , not to have meant also, something serious: IMnsHO.

Writing, one needs the skill of an Oscar Wilde .. to indicate well, "raised eyebrows" or, "yeah, in a Pig's eye" - and various artifices which spoken language manages well-enough, but written-language: demands virtuosity which few possess, most of the time (when we're not On a Roll).

I am hardly the first to hold this view. Poetry, for just one ex. - activates quite Different parts of the (mere) brain than prose, when actually listened-to; and 'mind' -- we haven't the foggiest about That's relationship to 'brain'. QED.

See.. I believe that the 'emotional mind' is *not* 'the intellectual mind' (though spatial configuration, overlapping of 'domains' etc - are not the Point) It doesn't matter which space-time 'each' inhabits: still IMhO they Are 'separate'; their interaction is the most complex of all which we cannot ever really 'parse', and forgetting that.. leads to such Gross misperceptions of the entire world as (say)

Imagining that 'Facts and facts' exist; imagining further that these can prove or 'Prove' something -!- thus {alas} creating . . .

My Gramma, the marlowes of the world, the prototype Neoconman and: Killing for Peace, plus all the other familiar forms of Language Murder - rampant in our times, and the basis *now* for whole Corporate Meeja Networks! Even.

Rest case.

(I don't expect my prosody to 'work' either consistently or for all forms of 'listening'. And only vanity ever imagines that you can edit your own stuff - very well.. ;-)



Cheers,

I.


BTW.. I feel that if we do not find some new ways to help Language to 'protect itself' [?!] from this rampant Murder, now ever-so popular -- the species Shall commit Seppuku by any of the well-known present techno- means. There may well be better ways to 'say' this, but I am quite sure of what I feel about the situation: rightly or incorrectly.