what you are about to read might startle you... get over it

Feb 19, 2008 17:32

Words and meaning

So I used to think that words in books were useless. I deemed that books with all descriptions about the way the key character felt and what she wore and how she looked in it and how she felt that particular book fit. I always thought that those keys shouldn’t matter. That a story should, just tell the story. Have a simple introduction of characters, tell the story without intricate detail. And get to the point. Kind of like the way I look at cars and guitars. See the metal, and screws and bolts and pieces, and then have the product. With small things about how each screw fit just right. Then, and only then did I understand that even though the details see like such a waste, I realized that human emotion is what fuels a story because that emotion Is what binds humanity together. You emotion effects me, and how I act, and so on until eternity. With cars, there is no emotion, it is only friction that binds the parts together. That’s why it is an accident for a car to collide with another car, its just more friction. That is also why it is not an accident for two humans to come in contact with one another. That is a collision that a human cannot live without. That is why the detail matters. My regard of someone’s problem because I can relate to his circumstances, effects my emotion, that is the fuel that keeps me reading. Searching for more of myself in the pages. I cannot even feel like a car.
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