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Weird effect: when I read poetry, for a few minutes after, if I read other text, I catch myself reading with a poetry rhythm that isn’t there and stumbling at the first rhythm break. Especially short texts like tweets. It’s like walking from unpaved to paved paths.
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Dental hygienist used a sonic cleaner on me, vibrating and whirring. With a meter, beat pattern. How much of that pattern was from the task, and how much from her culture? How much would the rhythm vary with the music she listens to on her own? On the music playing at work?
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