When we read a book, we put it back on the shelf.
Dec 2, 2023 5:19:31 GMT
Post by account_disabled on Dec 2, 2023 5:19:31 GMT
Think that it is enough to take a brush and some colors to create the works of Leonardo, Caravaggio, Michelangelo or the engraving tools to emulate Escher, abandon all hope, as Dante said. A painter must know perspective, shadow theory, proportions and anatomy, the combination of colors, the tools to use. The writer's training is different. The tools are within everyone's reach: all you need is a keyboard and a dictionary – you know that brick full of words that tells no story and ends without anyone getting married or saved? – so how is it formed? Reading and writing, at least. So that's enough, he can write and publish a novel, right? No, because the writer with his novel wants to take the reader from the first to the last written word, right? This is what we want.
We want to make the reader follow a path. In painting the figure of the editor cannot exist because a painting cannot be modified. Writing and painting create 2 opposite experiences But it is not just a problem of modifying a painting, it is mainly about two different, perhaps even opposite, experiences. We buy a painting and hang it in our room: what really Phone Number Data happens? That we look at that image every day and even several times a day. It doesn't bore us, because it gives us a sense of continuous satisfaction, of perpetual wonder. And it happens that, sometimes, we just stand there stunned in front of that illustration, admiring it endlessly, also asking ourselves "how the hell did he manage to draw that?".
We are subjecting our brain to reading the same message, yet our mind receives only relief and pure pleasure. At most we can reread it another time or two. Ok, even 3 or 4, but let's be honest: with how many books can something like this happen to us? Then the story gets boring when we reread it. We already know it, we know how it will end. While in a painting there is nothing that begins and ends, there is only a scene taken from a story never written. It is that in media res that immortalizes a moment, that tells nothing but at the same time tells an infinite number of stories. We would never be crazy enough to subject our brain to reading the same book every day, no matter how much we may have loved it.
We want to make the reader follow a path. In painting the figure of the editor cannot exist because a painting cannot be modified. Writing and painting create 2 opposite experiences But it is not just a problem of modifying a painting, it is mainly about two different, perhaps even opposite, experiences. We buy a painting and hang it in our room: what really Phone Number Data happens? That we look at that image every day and even several times a day. It doesn't bore us, because it gives us a sense of continuous satisfaction, of perpetual wonder. And it happens that, sometimes, we just stand there stunned in front of that illustration, admiring it endlessly, also asking ourselves "how the hell did he manage to draw that?".
We are subjecting our brain to reading the same message, yet our mind receives only relief and pure pleasure. At most we can reread it another time or two. Ok, even 3 or 4, but let's be honest: with how many books can something like this happen to us? Then the story gets boring when we reread it. We already know it, we know how it will end. While in a painting there is nothing that begins and ends, there is only a scene taken from a story never written. It is that in media res that immortalizes a moment, that tells nothing but at the same time tells an infinite number of stories. We would never be crazy enough to subject our brain to reading the same book every day, no matter how much we may have loved it.