Anodyne
Sunday, November 19, 2006
 
Today's soundtrack: Yo La Tengo, Almost True

Zadie Smith, trawled from somewhere deep in the internets' trenches: "But the problem with readers, the idea we’re given of reading is that the model of a reader is the person watching a film, or watching television. So the greatest principle is, 'I should sit here and I should be entertained.' And the more classical model, which has been completely taken away, is the idea of a reader as an amateur musician. An amateur musician who sits at the piano, has a piece of music, which is the work, made by somebody they don’t know, who they probably couldn’t comprehend entirely, and they have to use their skills to play this piece of music. The greater the skill, the greater the gift that you give the artist and that the artist gives you."
- posted by cjb @ 6:32 PM


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