Andy Matuschak on Twitter: "@vihartvihart Your point’s a good one. I think what you describe is rarer in books than in music, but it’s not uncommon. The thing that seems extremely rare is to author a multi-week/-month time experience for a book which is typically read over that timescale." / Twitter

Filmmakers, composers, and playwrights carefully author the time dimension of their work. The feeling of a pregnant pause and an accelerando comes from viewers' experience of passing time. Those mediums express a few hours’ evolving experience—what about days, months, years? 👇

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Andy Matuschak

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Your point’s a good one. I think what you describe is rarer in books than in music, but it’s not uncommon. The thing that seems extremely rare is to author a multi-week/-month time experience for a book which is typically read over that timescale.

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eg Brothers K was serialized over ~2 years, so readers had quite a long imposed timescale... but I don’t detect any significant interactions between that time scale and the prose. (Very willing to be enlightened on that point!)

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