JOHN UPDIKE ON STORYTELLING January 30, 2009
Posted by thenaturalist in Rhythm/Rhythms, Storytelling, Time.add a comment
In “Why I Write” from Picked-Up Pieces, John Updike says, “Storytelling, for all its powers of depiction, shares with music the medium of time, and perhaps its genius, its most central transformation, has to do with time, with rhythm and echo and the sense of time not frozen as in a painting but channeled and harnessed as in a symphony….”
DIANE ACKERMAN ON THE INTERNET January 30, 2009
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Diane Ackerman, who used the Internet while working on her book, The Zookeeper’s Wife, says: “The Internet is a volume in our library, a colorful, miscellaneous, and serendipitous one — but not a replacement for books, and certainly not an alternative to spending time in the world and just paying attention to things.”
WRITING vs. ORAL TRADITION January 30, 2009
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Jan Frel, a cultural critic and editor at the progressive news site AlterNet, holds that writing in general, rather than a reliance on oral tradition, has had a deleterious effect on culture.
