One thing about the Web that I’ve found consistently fascinating is how we fill in the gaps. We can come to learn incredibly personal things about a person via their blog or journal, but still have absolutely no idea of what something as truly intimate as their voice really sounds like.
I don’t know if you do this, but when I’m reading someone’s site, I get an approximation completely make up in my head a guess of what their voice might sound like. It helps make the experience of reading that person’s writing that much more fraternal and conjoining, even though it’s a total fantasy extrapolated from: their writing style; the design of the site; the usage of the third voice; abuse of the words “buttcrack” or “fart”; a trillion sundry things. At any rate, it is, in a way, very similar to what we do when we read books and imagine aspects of a certain character’s appearance. I like to fill in the gaps.
So it was with a rather bemused smile that I realized that Jeffrey’s voice, a voice I’d imagined countless times when visiting his site, was exactly as I imagined it would be. (RealAudio stream, courtesy of the {fray} cafe 2.)
