Brain Pain discussion

This topic covers chapter 12, Silent Speech, p. 239 - 246

"La déclamation muette" is still another slightly loose chapter, first published as an independent article and later added at the end of this book. It's mostly a text about breathing and how poetry is a way to provide rhythm to the breath and voice.

Some parts of this chapter made me think of the fascinating "Norton Lectures" given by Leonard Bernstein at Harvard, in the 1970s. These lectures tried to compare music with language (specifically, poetry). Bernstein had read Noam Chomsky's text on generative grammar, but I suspect he also had some knowledge of Bachelard's hazy philosophy of poetry.