>PHYSICAL INSIGHTS PROJECT
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>The next stimulus is: "The reader"
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>Max 300 words.
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>Best
>Chris
The reading experience occurs in a physically intimate space, space
we usually reserve for lovers and loved ones, or for confrontation,
the words printed on the page sitting less than eighteen inches away.
The reader and the poetry text create a reading-space which is
non-physical, an imagining-space free of physical location, able to
imagine other imagined locations, characters and actions.
The reader has chosen to be in this space.
The reader brings to this space all previous memory and experience,
all previous time contracted into the present time.
The reader effects a change in time too, suspending the universally
agreed upon timeline for a reading-timeline which is relevent and
devoted to the reading. In reading poetry the reader can travel from
here to childhood, from the future to the ancient past, or extend a
momentary experience over a seemimgly longer duration. Once in this
reading-time the reader can spend many hours and not be aware that
time has passed.
The non-physical reading-space is a combination of imagining-space
and reading-time.
The physical reading-space can also be an annonymous space, as the
reader can induce this state in a crowded train, café or usually
distracting(noisy) locations. In an intimate space with the book yet
bodily in very public spaces.
The reader has the advantage of having the whole text available to
them for re-reading and extended contemplation.
The printed/written poem also provides the reader with a visual
semiotic, by its physical organisation on the page, the order of the
pages, the look and feel of the publication.
The reading activity is by nature a solitary one.
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