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2012-09-24 05:52 3003925 Anonymous (1348255742032.jpg 1440x900 404kB)
Hey there /lit/, I have a question. If music appeals to our sense of hearing, cooking to taste, and art to sight. Then what sense does reading appeal to? I'm hoping my fellow intel/lit/uals can help me... >inb4 worst /lit/ pun >inb4 OP is a fag

2 min later 3003931 Anonymous
Imagination.

3 min later 3003933 sage sage
sage

16 min later 3003954 Anonymous
every sense. even synesthesia. even the absence of sense. heard of "images"?

37 min later 3004001 Anonymous
Sight, because you need eyes to read a language same as you do to recognize images.

38 min later 3004004 Anonymous
Mind and imagination. Thats why literature will forever reign as the highest form of art. It does not appear to mere senses, but speaks directly to the human. Reading a book is like having an intimate conversation with its author yes I find it sexually arousing

56 min later 3004046 Anonymous
>>3004001 What about the blind/ Braille readers? Can there be a transfer of senses in this case? Going from touch to an image you can see?

1 hours later 3004059 Anonymous
>>3004004 >>3004004 Yes, this. Literature does not, for the most part, appeal immediately to the senses in the almost physical way that the beautiful in other art forms does. To a limited extent, it appeals to sound, especially in poetry, but for the most important part it appeals to the intellect and the imagination. That's its distinctive role.

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