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tags: Error
rel: Neologistic Error Words
Spun off from thought in Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de Saussure
Neologistic Error Words but for reading. Make a list of all instance of misinterpreted or misread text.
How many times do I scan a text message, and with the hurry of the conversation misread and thus misinterpret the text? Can I track my gaze and alert when I am misleading myself? Can an error in a single sentence completely affect the course of a paragraph or novel?
I’ve wondered this when reading a book, how all of these things taken for granted and the process of carrying on even with incomplete or fuzzy information. The whole, objective grasp of the book world is impossible. rel: Chronotype
What I mean is that the narrative is resilient, so long as the human continues to read. We trudge on our own. They might become confused in the worst case, but so long as they read, the book continues.
The book form, in fiction, can be highly imaginative and subjective. You’ll see these “book castings” in which fictional characters are starred with real life actors. There’s invariably mismatches and disagreements.
In the absence of concrete visual imagery, the aspect of a human might be just derived from their personality, or the novel’s dialog.
When we read we carry in degrees, some of the creative effort ourselves. You can stop and rescan the page but still gaps might remain (possibly intentionally so).
Also present in a book, forgetfulness. You might not read carefully enough, or stop a book for days. Pieces of the plots are forgotten, confabulated. A film is a condensed form. We might not perceive all of the nuance, but my inclination is to think there is more of this in novel reading.
This is also marked in sound. Say you mumble something. Someone you know might think you’re being snide, or perhaps vulgar if that is what they think of you or their intrinsic reaction. Their misinterpretation could reveal more about their inner thoughts.