Words, like 3D graphics, are information. Unlike fancy 3D graphics, syllables put to good use convey a strong element of imaginative interpretation from the reader’s part. One’s imagination is quite simply sent soaring when reading. All of the abstract potential and lived experience stored in our brains surfaces when interpreting syllables and sentences (at least when one is enjoying what one is reading). It can be argued that a person can therefore provoke more complex inner emotions with pure language than with visual representations of things.
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