Well, my observation is just based on that I stumbled over it; that is, it distracted me from continuing to read it for content. Insufficiently luminous, heh, to comment on how I read the hostage part then.
Now, I note that “being taken hostage” was in a context of contrasting different situations; whereas B → C contains a single example which could easily have been a “normal” one. I think extraordinary examples distract from thinking about how to apply what one reads to one’s own life.
He may have had the same reaction I did to that paragraph and started skimming once it became apparent it was largely a list of words. I caught the hostage at a bank reference because I detected actual sentences towards the end of the paragraph and switched back to reading but I could easily have missed it. The ‘smash a window’ comes in the bullet pointed list that follows that is more likely to have been attended to.
Starin at the blank page Before you Open up the dirty window Let the sun illuminate the words That You cannot find Reaching For something in the distance So close you could almost taste it RELEASE YOUR INHIBITIONS Source
“smash a window” seems gratuitously abnormal and therefore distracting. Why not “open a window”?
You find “smash a window” gratuitously abnormal, but choose not to comment on having been taken hostage at the bank?
Well, my observation is just based on that I stumbled over it; that is, it distracted me from continuing to read it for content. Insufficiently luminous, heh, to comment on how I read the hostage part then.
Now, I note that “being taken hostage” was in a context of contrasting different situations; whereas B → C contains a single example which could easily have been a “normal” one. I think extraordinary examples distract from thinking about how to apply what one reads to one’s own life.
He may have had the same reaction I did to that paragraph and started skimming once it became apparent it was largely a list of words. I caught the hostage at a bank reference because I detected actual sentences towards the end of the paragraph and switched back to reading but I could easily have missed it. The ‘smash a window’ comes in the bullet pointed list that follows that is more likely to have been attended to.
Starin at the blank page
Before you
Open up the dirty window
Let the sun illuminate the words
That
You cannot find
Reaching
For something in the distance
So close you could almost taste it
RELEASE YOUR INHIBITIONS
Source