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Are readers as schizo as writers (who have voices in their heads most of the time)? --I've thought for a long time that writing is a very divided occupation. The writer gets to BE every character, is director, producer, and audience.... Does the reader/audience participate in the narrative i.e "loose yourself" in a good book? Sometimes I think if I didn't have other things I had to do, like fix dinner, go to work, answer the telephone -- it would be so EASY to just fly away and never come back. (When I am at work, I keep telling mysel"This is not the REAL world. The REAL world is...where?

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Thursday, 18 March 2004 22:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't speak for others, but I'm certain I fit into the schizo category, as a reader. I tend to become obsessed with characters and think about them through-out the day, sometimes to the point that I disregard interaction with breathing characters in favor of the created ones.

And there is no Real World - it's one of those fairy tales we're supposed to buy into.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 19 March 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys have voices in your heads too? Is this dangerous? I've always thought it would get me locked up. But lately I'm realizing that the token efforts I make to seem normal put just enough strain on me to just about push me over the edge...

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 19 March 2004 02:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Voices in one's head is a healthy way of functioning. They keep you company, tend to laugh at your jokes, lead you into all sorts of interesting situations, and create whole new worlds for one to explore. And, when things get really bad, they'll console you by reminding you of all the books you've yet to read.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 19 March 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Writing is a very godlike occupation. You (if you're writing fiction) get to choose who lives and who dies, etc. Like Shiva, you have the power to create and to destroy. I've heard that the people you see talking to themselves at bus stops are really writers rehearsing their dialogues. I know writers who talk to themselves, a lot. The fire of Creation, the drum of Destruction.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Friday, 19 March 2004 04:46 (twenty-one years ago)

For me, I'm just an observer when I read. If it's a really good book, I become an "active observer". Example: if there's a particular character I loathe or love, I send that character hate mail/love mail via the author via the publishing house.

As for writing, I have to become the character I create and give them appropriate personalities. It only becomes dangerous when I say things like, "Harold drove me home from the bar last night" to the people who know that Harold is just a figment of my imagination.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Friday, 19 March 2004 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Vermont Girl,

I have it on great authority that Harold is in fact a very good driver.

― Clellie, Saturday, 20 March 2004 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Did you read "I'm not really here" by Tim Allen? (Yes, Tim Allen of Home Improvement) -- Quantum Physics in words of one syllable.

Well, I enjoyed it. "What is Real?" The Tao of Tim.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Saturday, 20 March 2004 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

"Real" is two syllables.

― Dorien Thomas (Dorien Thomas), Wednesday, 7 April 2004 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

ahahah ohohoh ihihih

― detlef, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Look behind you. Harold is out there. He is on his way. "N' his mammy heered 'im hollar, and his pappy heerd 'im bawl, n' when they turned the kivvers down, he wasn't there at all!"

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Thursday, 15 April 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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