On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Sonja van Baardwijk Holten wrote:
> Julia Thompson schreef:
>
> > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Bob Henderson wrote:
> >
> > I'm sorry if this tangent was not at all the sort of thing you had in mind
> > when you made your post, but it gave me the opening to put down in words
> > some stuff that had been bouncing around in my head for awhile. I
> > appreciate your giving me the opening to do so.
>
> I never realised other people don't run back and forth through a book.
> So it didn't occur to me that that was the issue. Me, I can read lots
> of different stuff in the same time frame and in total disorder. I
> puzzle it back together in my mind after I've read it. I also don't
> mind if I get to see the last part of a movie first and the whole
> movie later. Or if sequells get mixed up. But I guess that must have
> something to do with the amazing amount of storylines I seem to be
> able to store in my mind. :o).
I have an easier time doing this with movies than with books, maybe
because I'll come in at the middle of a movie on TV, watch some of it,
maybe the whole rest of it, maybe not; there are a couple of movies that
I think I've seen the entirety of, just not in one sitting and not
necessarily in order. But I prefer doing it linearly. (And movies tend
not to be as complicated as novels; a novel would translate to something
much longer on the screen, or leave out stuff.)
Julia
