tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post581357165458138516..comments2009-02-16T22:05:51.585-05:00Maja Djikichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16522265542660035768noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5455277388900637928.post-49554099225115331262009-02-16T22:05:00.000-05:002009-02-16T22:05:00.000-05:00Today I read and greatly enjoyed your little piece on the Five Stages of Flaubertian composition.  The fourth stage, if I recollect, is the one where the prose is tested by reading aloud.  Flaubert talks about putting the text to the test of his "gueuloir";  and I recall being somewhat humiliated, when we learned about this in high school,  when I discovered that his "gueuloir" was simply his mouth, and not, as I had imagined, a long echoing gallery in a large house in which he would shout ("gueuler") each sentence.Ronnie de Sousahttp://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~sousa/noreply@blogger.com