Sunday, November 27th, 2011
During my schooltime, one of our writing-exercises was called "re-narration".
You had to listen very attentively to the teacher telling a story, and then retell it, as they put it, „in your own words".
The marvel that this task was meant to bring about was: speaking in one's own voice, not by starting from oneself, but by saying what someone else had said.
After all these years, I still prefer to write what I have read and tell what I have heard. And yes, I still hope that it will teach me speaking in my own words.