tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882241647734848746.post3987781788923144119..comments2023-06-20T07:47:24.386-05:00Comments on The Spiced Tea Party: Sex BackwardsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882241647734848746.post-4477255721994049672007-06-16T12:51:00.000-05:002007-06-16T12:51:00.000-05:00Celia, it's an old proofreader's trick to read bac...Celia, it's an old proofreader's trick to read backwards. It works especially well if you are proofing your own work, because we all know how easy it is to miss our own typos, etc.<BR/><BR/>I'd also like to comment on turning a picture upside down. This is something photographers and artists often do, to catch errors in a picture. When I was taking a photography course, the instructor said that a picture that looks balanced right-side-up should be turned upside down to see if it still looks balanced. <BR/><BR/>Looking at a picture the normal way can fool the brain into accepting things with flawed balance or composition or color. turning it upside down often makes those elements jump out at you. So I suppose that's the same concept with reading backwards.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882241647734848746.post-36384258622418584662007-06-16T12:47:00.000-05:002007-06-16T12:47:00.000-05:00It also makes me think of that very sexy movie of ...It also makes me think of that very sexy movie of some years back, <I>Betrayal</I>, with Jeremy Irons and Ben Kingsley, where the story of an adulterous affair is told backwards.Pam Rosenthalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04357928783704661668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882241647734848746.post-47217368122142249172007-06-16T08:06:00.000-05:002007-06-16T08:06:00.000-05:00It does sound rather like the theory that porn (pr...It does sound rather like the theory that porn (print, visuals) that has lost its former allure is given a new lease of life by being turned upside down. Or so I'm told. <BR/>Interesting, tho--it implies each sentence must have an erotic arc to it.JRMullanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09385318200404516357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882241647734848746.post-27217309397206925532007-06-16T00:02:00.000-05:002007-06-16T00:02:00.000-05:00By sentence. So that each sentence stands alone as...By sentence. So that each sentence stands alone as a grammatical construct. Which gets interesting when you have to figure out what on earth the "he", "she", "that" or "it" is in the sentence. This catches alot of subject/object mistakes for me.<BR/><BR/>Pam -- an erotic scene backwards? Man, you just sent an express telegram to the girls in my attic!Celia May Harthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00124733975264957145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882241647734848746.post-90737061990008636012007-06-15T22:49:00.000-05:002007-06-15T22:49:00.000-05:00Backwards? By word? By line? By paragraph?Backwards? <BR/><BR/>By word? By line? By paragraph?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7882241647734848746.post-2427359826987490142007-06-15T10:11:00.000-05:002007-06-15T10:11:00.000-05:00I love this post, Celia. On the simplest level bec...I love this post, Celia. On the simplest level because I suck as a proofreader and this seems like a wonderful idea. And on some other level because I think there's a wonderful idea for erotic writing there. I've sent a memo to the girls in the attic. Thanks.Pam Rosenthalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04357928783704661668noreply@blogger.com