But aren’t we actually more likely to relate a novel we’re reading to our own lives, which are not purely visual and not something two-dimensional that we sit and watch but are multi-dimensional and going on around us and inside us?
I think you're right here. Oddly enough, for myself, almost more important thatn the visuals in a novel is a sort of auditory sense. I can hear the characters' individual voices in my head, much more clearly than I can pin down a visual image of them. I don't know if others are the same way about this.
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Re: Ut pictura poesis, sort of
Date: 2006-12-15 05:03 am (UTC)I think you're right here. Oddly enough, for myself, almost more important thatn the visuals in a novel is a sort of auditory sense. I can hear the characters' individual voices in my head, much more clearly than I can pin down a visual image of them. I don't know if others are the same way about this.