"What Salter has done, for a reader like me, is create the faintest necessary frequency, assemble the barest and most suggestive notes, and invited me to sing my own version of a song even as I listen to his original."
Love this. It perfectly describes the ways in which I engage with my favorite writers. Ineffable, really, except you found a way to say it.
This is a wonderful, edged-with-sadness piece. Now I need to reread Light Years and open A Sport and a Pastime for the first time in view of your piece. Thanks!
"What Salter has done, for a reader like me, is create the faintest necessary frequency, assemble the barest and most suggestive notes, and invited me to sing my own version of a song even as I listen to his original."
Love this. It perfectly describes the ways in which I engage with my favorite writers. Ineffable, really, except you found a way to say it.
This is a wonderful, edged-with-sadness piece. Now I need to reread Light Years and open A Sport and a Pastime for the first time in view of your piece. Thanks!