Aural reading
January 10th, 2006 | Published in Language, Books & Reading, Quotes, Literature
[G]ood reading is always aural as well as visual. For the sound is not merely a superadded pleasure, though it may be that too, but part of the compulsion; in that sense, part of the meaning. This is true even of a good, working prose.
—C.S. Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism (1961), p. 90