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Author: girlyboy

Nov 30th 2017 at 8:26:01 PM

This is interesting and I agree that it's definitely trope-able.

I would like some elaboration on the bit that goes "naturally, all works have sound (even books)." While quite true if one thinks about it, saying that books have sound is ''un''intuitive enough that I think it'd be nice to have an extra sentence expanding on this statement.

As an aside, is it possible for a book to have non-diegetic sound? I can imagine, perhaps, a writer with a style similar to Terry Pratchett's or Douglas Adams' having an aside directly to the audience, saying something like "if the reader were witnessing this scene, they might imagine hearing such-and-such a type of music swelling in the background" or something like that; could there be other ways to have a non-diegetic sound in a book? Could something like the sound the book itself makes, e.g. the rustling of pages or the creaking of the cover, be considered non-diegetic sound, in that it might contribute to the overall "feel" or "atmosphere" the reader experiences?