I saw the you in me, and the me in you
I remember reading a piece by Harold Bloom where he explained that audiobooks were not books because the proper experience goes in through the eyes. The reading experience is only an ocular experience, not an auditory one. That had me sitting there thinking about old John Milton, who obviously was not a proper writer at all because he couldn’t even see what he was writing. He was dictating it to his daughters who wrote it down. What kind of a faux poet was he?
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— http://www.salon.com/2011/11/23/neil_gaimans_audiobook_record_label/singleton/ (via neil-gaiman)

IT’S OKAY, NEIL. WE ALL KNOW HAROLD BLOOM IS FULL OF CRAP. 
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    Ah. Well, SO MUCH FOR HOMER. Also, FFS, I learned to read by my parents reading aloud to me (before school). Did nobody...
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    I… oh my god what the fuck. I remember when Ambrose was a weird fucker for reading without speaking.
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    IT’S OKAY, NEIL. WE ALL KNOW HAROLD BLOOM IS FULL OF CRAP.
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