These are old, but I encountered them fairly recently:
Two nice essays on reading aloud (
1 +
2)
"Reading aloud recaptures the physicality of words. To read with your
lungs and diaphragm, with your tongue and lips, is very different than
reading with your eyes alone. The language becomes a part of the body,
which is why there is always a curious tenderness, almost an erotic
quality, in those 18th- and 19th-century literary scenes where a book
is being read aloud in mixed company. The words are not mere words. They
are the breath and mind, perhaps even the soul, of the person who is
reading."
Well put.
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