Ancestors

Written by Giles Edwards on 2024-10-07 at 21:41

Alternately, what's wrong with considering something as an act of listening?

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Written by Giles Edwards on 2024-10-07 at 22:25

Consider, for instance, you've listened to a narration of, I dunno, "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street".

Have you read it after you've listened? I'd say no—but that doesn't mean you haven't "taken in it in", so to speak.

Using the word "listen" gives tacit acknowledgement to the labours of whoever may have gone to the trouble to read the thing aloud.

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Descendants

Written by Giles Edwards on 2024-10-07 at 22:31

The actual argument here, to the best of my understanding, is about whether reading, as an act, is "superior" to listening.

It isn't: it's just different. And anyone's decision as to how they take in their novels, stories, news, non-fiction, &c. is as valid as the next person's.

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