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Originally Posted by Dee Q
I also heard that some people even learned by heart the sentences or even paragraphs they liked. Have anybody here ever done that?  |
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Some of us have done it, but others have questioned the need. I'm in the first group, but a fair number of people on MR are in the second.
A third group seems to have been forced (apparently at knife point) to memorize excruciating passages in middle school. A few of those have never forgiven the odd teacher for the tedium of the experience, which makes me worry about their class reunions.
Personally, I've never understood why anyone would be bitter over having to learn something when they've got lifetimes in which to be autodidacts and forget it all, but sobeit. Different smokes for different strokes.
A poet named Robert Gluck
has said that, as a young man, he transcribed passages by John Keats because he wanted to know how it felt to write "those lines." That seems a tad Karoake-literal to me -- it's not really flowing out of
you, is it? -- but the exercise must have felt good to Gluck, since he's never stopped writing (or worshiping Keats). Why does he still do it? Because of his Keatsian desire "to make a beautiful object with language."