Rebekah's Reading Room: Listen to This!

Have you ever gotten to sing in the Messiah before?

Have you gotten to watch a performance of it?

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". . . It should be noted here that the public's standard for proper pacing has changed over the years. The leisurely pace of Jane Austen or Sir Walter Scott makes my modern students gnash their teeth. The fact that we have moved from a literary culture to a video culture, as Neil Postman points out, means that modern readers will tolerate little character development and less description. "Nothing happens" in a book, according to my students, unless the first chapter features at least two murders and a car chase.

This just means that moderns have a problem with perspective. Our idea of appropriate pacing is too narrow; it needs to be expanded to include subtle discussions and loving descriptions. But this does not mean that modern readers need to tolerate inefficient time management. Detours worth taking are allowed; foot-dragging is never acceptable."
~J. F. Baldwin

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Monday, December 11, 2017

Listen to This!

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