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Re: Writing and Memory

From:

Margaret Penfold <[log in to unmask]>

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Thu, 24 Nov 2005 01:25:10 +0000

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Dear Rosa,

I've looked at Newnames, but don't think I have taken enough information 
from your snippets so far  to make any useful comments on whether it 
fulfilled your intentions. I do however want to comment on the audio 
element although I don't know whether what  I write will makes any sense 
to you, or anyone else who may be listening in.
The choice of a  toneless dirge-like background audio to convey the 
topmost mental layer of disjointed sub vocal thoughts interests me,  
especially  as it   has become almost a convention on the web  to 
indicate sub vocal thoughts in this way.It sets me off wondering if that 
is how other people perceive those thoughts.

  I can't correlate that base voice with my top mental layer of sub 
vocal thoughts. I perceive those as being much speedier and associate 
them with a higher pitch but in a way that doesn't have anything to do 
with aurality.  The only time when my sub vocal thoughts verge on of 
slow bass is when I am succumbing to an anaesthetic.

Behind my sub-vocal thoughts lies another layer of meaningless 
background babble.  I only hear this when I am overtired and/or 
overworked or when I deliberately clear away the layer of sub-vocal 
thoughts.  This second layer gives the impression of real sound that 
ears should react to.  Each of the inane half-started;half finished 
phrases in this layer seems to come from a different speaker.  The 
accents and vocabulary vary.  Some voices belong to women's, some to men 
but I recognise none of them.

 Flashes of useful memory surge through these two top layers. These 
surges usually contain information that has eluded me when have I needed 
it earlier  e.g names of plants or people or an appropriate verb for a 
piece of writing, this 'voice', is again one without imagined sound 
although I perceive it  as a gender free and associate it with a high 
pitch .

There is another layer I am only too aware of when it bursts through but 
I think the three I have mentioned are enough to be getting on with.
 


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