Status Updates From Transcription: A Novel

for some reason i'd thought this was a really long novel but it's so short! right now i'm having trouble getting into it -- really feels like isaac chotiner interviews werner herzog rn. not

Do we have ears to hear? Although sometimes we listen without them. Beethoven would bite a stick connected to the piano so that he could ‘hear’ through the bones. [...] There is listening beyond the cochlear, yes? And all of this is true of time, too, not only sound. Vibrations from the past or future may also be received, perhaps also through the teeth. Or through your pen, the poet as seismographer.