but thats actually something that puzzled me for many years.
why is Moshe Feldenkrais’ writing style so different to his talking style? (comparing Amherst / AY transcripts to his books).
its like two different persons speaking / writing.
i first encountered this phenomenon when i was reading kafka.
i didnt find it on my own, it was in kafkas “Brief an den Vater” where he has this sentence: “[..] als dass ich sie im Reden halbwegs zusammenhalten könnte” (he says he can not answer a (specific) question in speaking (and only quite incompletely in writing)).
super beautiful wording. quite impressive on my teenage mind.
and still is today.
how come he can write something, but not speak it?
i actually experienced the same problem. for many years i didn’t know how to bring my thoughts across. (in speaking and writing).
and at some point i just gave up and stopped to care. actually.
but the question prevailed … why is a persons writing style so different from his speaking style? me included. it’s like having an alter ego in writing.
on my way to integration i guess youtube commenting system helped me a lot.
on youtube people just wrote their mind. and in the beginning it was pretty ugly. youtube quickly became world renowned for the mad commenting style people used. google it, if you want to know more about it. i guess theres some irre entertaining blog posts about this out there.
at some time i started to align my alter egos, and make one personality, in writing and speaking. mainly because i stopped writing “diary style”, or “school style” but i started to only write to people in person. chatting, texting, emailing, commenting, even in blogging i keep one or two friends in mind.
so, over the course of about 10 years, this is how i found out that alignment of speaking and writing is possible. although it’s possible to practice diverse styles. i guess the master uses the style he thinks is appropriate or cool or helpful or hilarious or inappropriate at each given time.
ok sorry for the briefness. its not a complete peace of literature, just a quick blog post.