How I Read Aloud, 6

[The last thing this page is--chronologically as well as in importance--is words!]

       So when you read, you’re reading the world into existence, you’re putting something on everyone’s plate, something that’s already there, from their own experience, ready to be activated into the new slant on life contained uniquely in these words and no others.  If we’ve been read well to, we’re not left with words, but a changed life.

       What makes those words come alive for an audience isn’t the “ideal voice,” it’s everything else nonvocal, nonverbal that makes the voice spring into action responsively, turns on the mind, turns up the juices, puts one into the game with a new frame of reference--first of all the reader and because of that, the listener!