There is also a deeper fundamental process going on where the writer creates living experiences into words and the reader matches those words back into his own experience, bringing interest and meaning and life to them. The reader's task is to try to feel that deeper level of his own experience responding to the writer's. His attention can penetrate through the words to the moving experiences behind them. He begins to listen for that inner resonance like listening for subtle rhythms of music beginning to dance him around. Music makes this process clearer, for its written notes are merely abstract markers of actual rhythms and tones from the composer's experience that you feel directly as sounds vibrating your hearing, rhythms moving your body, stirring emotions and thoughts in your experience of listening.
Words too can be markers of a deeper music, notations of living experience.
The internet gives us real time. This is critical. And it links us together to respond to one another, to be together, as books never could. And it gives ordinary people a chance to participate. But below that, our exploring is the same.