> How do you do that? Are you hearing the words out loud in your head? Is every sentence being parsed? Yes, I still have an internal voice when I read (and whe

> How do you do that? Are you hearing the words out loud in your head? Is every sentence being parsed? Yes, I still have an internal voice when I read (and when I touch type for that matter). > Also, what is light prose? Is it just something you don't care too much about extracting meaning from? - The words are familiar (a counterexample would be any work written in Elizabethan English, since I'll trip over archaic word meanings) - The organization is such as to make for easy understanding what is happening. Some authors do the opposite as a literary device; highly non-linear works or an extremely unreliably narrator are counterexamples. This does not exclude allegory. Arthur Miller's The Cruicible is a straightforward dramatization of a story in colonial Salem, but is rather transparently an allegory for McCarthyism. I think that extracting meaning is largely orthogonal to whether prose is light or not. Certainly many important works are intentionally dense, but there's also overly pretentious drivel dressed up in hard-to-understand clothing.