Who Stole My Inner Reading Voice?
by Iain on August 26, 2009
I don’t know what’s happened. My inner reading voice changed. It wasn’t intentional. I didn’t mean for it to happen. It just did. It’s as if someone stole the old one and did a switcheroo.
Thankfully now I’m writing a bog-standard blog post it’s changed back to normal. As I write (and re-read) this the voice that speaks the words back in my head sounds reassuringly like me (actually it sounds more like how I’d like to sound rather than how I actually do).
The funny ‘internal-reader’ theft happened in the middle of writing up an idea for a client. It’s not a particularly grand idea, not in the grander scheme of grand things anyhow. But I guess if I’m being honest I suppose I was writing it with a bit of pomp to set things up. I went back to the beginning, to skim what I’d written, and all of a sudden I could hear bloody Morgan Freeman reading my words back to me.
He was using his ‘March of the Penguins’ voice rather than his ‘Shawshank’ – so at least he’d had the decency to pick the right voice for the job. I wonder how much he’d cost to actually come and do the presentation for me? I think he might just sway it…
6 comments
Great image of you pitching your idea to the client, a room full of incredulous faces as you explain your idea in a really bad Morgan Freeman voice. The day that crackunit finally cracked!!
by Tim B on 26/08/2009 at 8:39 am. #
Hang on… but doesn’t your inner reading voice change according to what you’re reading anyway? For example – in reading this I don’t hear my own voice in my head – I hear yours.
by Beddardo on 26/08/2009 at 9:22 am. #
Beddard, yes. But that’s my point I was reading what I’d written. And it didn’t sound like me any more. Reading your comment sounds like you – well it does in my head anyway.
by Iain on 26/08/2009 at 9:27 am. #
I can no longer read – only scan. Which is fine for work stuff, but means when reading a novel I scan the first few pages and then realise I have absolutely no idea what’s happening. It’s the internet’s fault.
by James Cherkoff on 26/08/2009 at 3:46 pm. #
You just wait until you start reading children’s stories, you’ll be doing Morgan Freeman out loud just for kicks.
by Mike on 26/08/2009 at 8:13 pm. #
Iain, this is your best blog entry yet as far as I’m concerned.
by Lisa on 27/08/2009 at 7:13 am. #