Writers write so readers can read. Having them read and talk about their work is a cheap publicity trick...one who writes can express himself through his writing quite beautifully and yet sound stupid when speaking about it, since its two different processes of speech.
For a moment there she thought the laughter - then the clapping - was taking her thoughts on joy as an emotion being separate from other emotions as a joke when it was meaningful, but I think that the question time (of her reading) was up (were there other readers yet to go, or was it just 9 o'clock, so to say, and time to leave and the signal went out). As to medicants: the man introducing her said it was her first audience reading, I'd need to see her elsewise to judge her typical performance persona, and really wasn't everyone on tranquilizers back then?
Writers write so readers can read. Having them read and talk about their work is a cheap publicity trick...one who writes can express himself through his writing quite beautifully and yet sound stupid when speaking about it, since its two different processes of speech.
She seemed pissed off when she just walked off the stage like that... 😐
For a moment there she thought the laughter - then the clapping - was taking her thoughts on joy as an emotion being separate from other emotions as a joke when it was meaningful, but I think that the question time (of her reading) was up (were there other readers yet to go, or was it just 9 o'clock, so to say, and time to leave and the signal went out). As to medicants: the man introducing her said it was her first audience reading, I'd need to see her elsewise to judge her typical performance persona, and really wasn't everyone on tranquilizers back then?