Once I saw something like that, I felt like that is a short step to, like, E. E. Cummings, which is like a short step to something else. The sizes of letters, their spacing on the page, they're all tools. All writing is, in my experience -- this is bold, and it's probably not entirely true -- I feel like it's a tool for expressing and it's a tool for thinking. And the way you use those tools not only allows you to express yourself and to think, but it also enforces some constraints on how you express yourself and how you think. So to the extent that you can limber up the tools a little bit, you may have the ability to express things and think about things in ways that you otherwise wouldn't that become productive for you, hopefully
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Author T.M. Wolf reveals which composers he studied in order to come with the unique form of his novel Sound