@Malcolm_Ocean persuaded me to try playing around with Twitter, so: hello. Here is a question I have, crudely put, tongue moderately in cheek: is writing bad? Should we, perhaps, stop doing it?
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I think that's certainly true - do you know of any stories where song is the main form of communication? written in prose, ofc
Also: opera - manifests itself in melodrama & the extremes of emotion. Perhaps we'd be a more empathetic species if our communication was simply song?
Musicals! Esp. ones that are fully sung through. @HamiltonMusical's a fantastic example. As far as books, @PatrickRothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicle is extremely concerned with song, and arguably the most important acts of communication in it are songs.
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Love them both :) Though I would argue that PR's KC only points to Song as a more suitable medium for "sleeping mind" (tho also used cleverly for "waking mind" memorization), but the vast majority of that world and its functionality are built on and exist in "waking mind"/prose
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Yes, regrettably we might need "waking mind" (left hemisphere) in order to maintain the machinery of civilization, but mostly I see dependence on "waking mind" over "sleeping mind" (right hemisphere) as a tragedy upstream of most modern tragedies.
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