at tracking a pattern of sound through a text, though the process rapidly become repetitive and over-technical: "There are three ih sounds in the next stanza, two in the next stanza, along with two i sounds. Then in the last stanza there are a total of nine ih sounds and three i sounds . . ."You can, in short, read too closely, just as you can squash your nose up against a canvas until the painting fades to a blur.
from Terry Eagleton: The Times: The Guardian: A puritan at play
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