Response 1: Notation

This response is in response to the essay "Notation and the Art of Reading" by Karl Young. In the essay Young gives four examples of kinesthetic, which he defines as “the link between sight, sound, and speech.”
The first example is from the Aztec culture. Young describes the books used by the Aztecs, though one could infer by his description that they were more like scrolls. These books were inscribed with pictographs and symbols that did not have an implicit meaning, but rather served as means in which the Aztec readers could recall stories (which were in the form of song) from their memory. In other words, these books were not used to tell stories, but rather as a means to pass them on. Young explains that children would be told these stories while being showed the books. The images would then serve as a reminder as they learned to memorize the stories they were told. This is how the Aztec books were kinesthetic. The stories were sung, aiding to the speech and sound aspect, and at the same time the books showed images that related to the story, which satisfies the sight requirement.
The next example is from Chinese culture. In this section Young describes calligraphy and the poetry of it. Unfortunately Young fails to mention which form of the Chinese language he is talking about, but it is best to assume that he means Mandarin. Young speaks of how poetry was to be deciphered, read, read aloud, thought about, and then honored though artistry, song, or poetry (if the reader was moved by it). One thing Young glosses over is just how complex Kanji is, such as the fact there are multiple write a single word and the fact that these multiple ways are made up of simpler words that give the larger word a different feel. This adds to the way the poem is to be written and deciphered. Again this form is kinesthetic as the words are spoken to be fully appreciated and can sometimes gift the reader with their meaning.
The third example that is given is the writing of the late 16th and early 17th century, most notably the writings of Shakespeare and Donne. In this example Young talks about how written word was not yet formalized and writers would often write the same word multiple ways in order to show how it was supposed to be spoken. At the same time words were often used to be puns, or rather represent other things as well as themselves. At times the true meanings of the poems were not revealed until they were spoken, much like the Chinese poems, thus making them kinesthetic.

EDIT: 08/28/08

Looking back I realize I fundamentally missed the definition of kinesthetic.