Re: Tolkien Trust vs New Line

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"David DeLaney" <dbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:41:02 -0800, Dr. Rufo
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wrote:

If I understand you correctly, you're saying that when you read a
book or hear an audio tape (of a book?) you DON'T visualize what's
being described in your mind. Is that correct?

Generally not, no. I may well partially -hear- the sentences being
read - though I read faster than anyone can talk, I know part of
what I'm doing when I read involves the same circuitry I use to
listen to stuff,
from what happens when someone tries to talk to me when I read,
etc. But
I do not visualize a cartoon / video / etc. setting of what's going
on.

If so, would you, please, tell me just what it is you DO?

I get a series of symbols going past, the meanings of whatever it
is
I'm reading. (No, not 'the symbols of the letters that make up the
word', but rather symbols representing what the noun is and what
the
verb says to do and what the adjective is modifying with, etc.)

For example, when I read your sentence, I don't see you standing
there saying "Please tell me just what it is you do?". I get (and
this is
in no way exact, I'm not even sure this is quite what's happening,
because
it's hard to slow it down and VERY hard to think ABOUT what I'm
doing when I read and read at the same time) symbolizations for
if-then/possibility, command/request, 2p singular, politeness
interjection, information->1p singular, intensifier, and then the
last phrase gets tangled up with one of the White Knight's songs
from Alice and falls apart when I try to disentangle it down to the
word level. This is probably making no sense at all, for which I
apologize, but
imagine how much worse it would be if you were in telepathic
contact
with me while I was doing this...

There would be an interesting story in here somewhere...


In fact, it's Lafferty's "Through Other Eyes", about a machine that
lets one person experience the world the way another does. That is,
it answers the question "Is what you see when you see something red
the same thing I see when I see something red?"


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