Red Széll

And we've said it before, a good audiobook narrator can make a mediocre book sound fantastic.

A bad audiobook narrator can kill even the best book.

Yeah, absolutely.

And that is how we take it in.

I know two blind guys talking about

reading the word on the page but you know we both read braille you know i don't know about you but i'm as somebody who used to be able to see my fingers skate across those braille drop dots and they're actually forming the shapes of the letters and the words in my mind's eye which then is some what i'm reading to myself and i'm doing it with an internal voice

Yeah, there's a musicality about it.

And then also the repetition of the word fall three times.

So you're already tumbling with the sentence.

You know that, you know, that word fall is ringing like a knell in the background.

And I really genuinely believe in the musicality of language.

The differential between prose and poetry is quite arbitrary, I think, in some ways.

You know, not all poetry has to be iambic pentameter and rhyme every second line.

In fact, sometimes that's the worst poetry.

There's a poetry naturally in language and in the cadences we use.

And as Frank Herbert says, if you are...

placing your punctuation and your paragraph breaks and the different lengths of words in places deliberately to extend people's interest, to immerse them more.

then you're creating a type of poetry, whether it's called prose or not.

Yes, but I would argue that all language is poetic to an extent, unless it's produced by an AI.

But maybe even that, who knows?