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[solitary_summer]

Because soavezefiretto made me think about my photography-killed-writing dilemma.

"Do you agree?" asked Margaret. "Do you think music is so different to pictures

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[un_crayon_rouge]

prompte und oberflächliche Erledigung des Gefühls durch die literarische Sprache*cringes

[solitary_summer]

Don't blame *me*! :) I couldn't resist quoting, it was still so fresh in my mind.

I don't think it's necessarily true, either; to some extent maybe, but not in this brutal absoluteness. Of course there's fiction I read for emotional gratification, but that's something different, because it touches/satisfies relatively simple emotions; it doesn't explain. And good fiction doesn't so much explain, as inspire, make me think, make me grateful that I'm allowed share this person's vision. Personally I'd never apply this to any of TM's writing.

And part of me still loves - and for a long time even needed - that aspect of language, the defining, the explaining and ordering. Everything else was too scary to consider.

Sorry, my brain is really dead tonight... I'll have to think about this some more, before I come up with some platitude about thow important it is to find a balance - which maybe it is, after all.

Love the last paragraph - I think you're absolutely right.