nicht maulfaul :::
copyright by 2006 National Book Award winning Richard Powers / NYT, jan. 7th, 2007 zur oralen und ins ohr echoenden organisation grosser romanliteratur . - . READ MY LIPS ::: was wäre gewesen, hätte James Joyce den wecker für Finnegan’s Wake auf ein spracherkennungsprogramm gestellt ?
How to Speak a Book
By RICHARD POWERS Except for brief moments of duress, I haven’t touched a keyboard for years.No fingers were tortured in producing these words — or the last half a million words of my published fiction. By rough count, I’ve sent 10,000 e-mail messages without typing. My primary digital prosthetic doesn’t even have keys.I write these words from bed, under the covers with my knees up, my head propped and my three-pound tablet PC — just a shade heavier than a hardcover — resting in my lap, almost forgettable. I speak untethered, without a headset, into the slate’s microphone array. The words appear as fast as I can speak, or they wait out my long pauses. I touch them up with a stylus, scribbling or re-speaking as needed. Whole phrases die and revive, as quickly as I could have hit the backspace. I hear every sentence as it’s made, testing what it will sound like, inside the mind’s ear. Continue reading ‘1 mund/ful/l literatur’
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