Close Listening
Oh wow! what a joy if I could do all my readings this week through close listening instead of beating my eyes up. Imagine wisdom woman in Proverbs 8:1-21. Can almost hear her crying from the gates of the city. You'd get a sense of her boldness when she takes centre stage vying for everyone's attention linking cosmic order and social order. Little bit like that with audio listening - linking my life with the cosmic out there somewhere. Dominating as well as manipulating my space. I was brought up on a diet of close listening. Books too expensive; Holy Bible and a set of encyclopaedia that was it - my imagination was belonged to the speaker not to me.
My dilemma with the audio is I have no control (except on/off button). When I want to re-read, pick up where I left off, speed up or slow down. Linger over a romantic scene or power through the jet ride. I might want to keep rewinding to get the word - that way I might lose the momentum. Oh no I want to be in CONTROL.
Audio listening could be just another way towards domination - of time, imagination, dreams. Reading Lord of the Rings reinofrced the desire that the good would always conquer and the bad would be destroyed. But "reading closely" gave me an insight that there is a little bit of evil within us. Reading stories like this shaped me-part of who I am .I read the Lord of the rings 3 times. The movie? I had already brought the story to life in my imagination.
Now weekly readings - close listening could help- Yep I could be eating my dinner and listening to Heidegger's theory on "being and time" at the same time. I could keep rewinding to get a better understanding. Oops the tape could wear out (before I got the gist), after a dozen rewinds. Books well you can read and read and read...till you get it.
My dilemma with the audio is I have no control (except on/off button). When I want to re-read, pick up where I left off, speed up or slow down. Linger over a romantic scene or power through the jet ride. I might want to keep rewinding to get the word - that way I might lose the momentum. Oh no I want to be in CONTROL.
Audio listening could be just another way towards domination - of time, imagination, dreams. Reading Lord of the Rings reinofrced the desire that the good would always conquer and the bad would be destroyed. But "reading closely" gave me an insight that there is a little bit of evil within us. Reading stories like this shaped me-part of who I am .I read the Lord of the rings 3 times. The movie? I had already brought the story to life in my imagination.
Now weekly readings - close listening could help- Yep I could be eating my dinner and listening to Heidegger's theory on "being and time" at the same time. I could keep rewinding to get a better understanding. Oops the tape could wear out (before I got the gist), after a dozen rewinds. Books well you can read and read and read...till you get it.
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'The Dawn'- When you read, you create your own imagination of the story and can almost hear the 'wisdom woman' crying in your head. When you listen to it, I bet your previous imagination from print reading may either be challenged or affirmed. for me, on listening you hear 2 'wisdom women' crying: one your own and the other the narrators. So whereas audio save us from all those 'heavy stuff' from Heidegger, the books recognize my being. None of this could replace the other!
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