[Prestidigitweeze]

There are as many ways to experience reading as there are preferred tempi and velocities at which to read, aren't there? If someone hears and sees language exclusively, that's as valid as the visual and sensory approach.

While I admire writing that involves all the senses (except perhaps the novel Perfume, which lives in your nose until you have to close the book and hunt for your handkerchief), words can convey a sensuality of their own. Do you know the Norton Anthology of English Lit's diagram of Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale," which traces six levels of assonance and alliteration in the first two lines? Reading that poem is like biting into a pomegranate.