Ernest Slyman writes:
>> (I must pause at this interval and beg for forgiveness from all those
>> four-legged poets who may have taken exception with my Talking Horse.
>> Far be it for me to offend horses who have gone to the trouble to learn
>> elocution.)
Your Mister Ed theory seems to be gaining little ground. And I wonder - if
you are "strongly against hearing voices" in your head then how do you manage
to read a poem at all? I presume you hear your own voice which is by now so
familiar to you it is inaudible to the conscious Ernest. ("a poem should
speak only when spoken to." - E. Slyman.)
And how would you approach reading a dialect poem!? Even if you were to
translate on the fly you would still have to hear the sounds to some extent,
surely. If "a language is a dialect with an army" then your ideal of a
reading without baggage is obviously just horse feathers.
Love, Steve.
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