We know that we use different parts of our brains to look at pictures and read. Would forcing more frequent switching between them be desirable?
I typed questions from this stream of dilemmas into Google. Almost the first page to come up was on a meditative, beautiful site -- Vertigo, whose special interest is in the works of W.G. Sebald, an intriguing, idiosyncratic German novelist – emphatically modernist and experimental, who died in 2001. He made a habit of inserting black-and-white photographs – many of them mysterious and blurry – into work that was ‘part hybrid fiction, part memoir and part travelogue.’ The Vertigo blogger, Terry Pitts, posted this excerpt from a commentary on Sebald by Ivan Vladislavić (The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories, Seagull Books, 2012) ...![]()
