Monday, 4 January 2010

Reading - the downside.

There are drawbacks to being a reader. I've read many thousands of books. I've watched endless TV dramas, films and plays. This means that there's no scene I haven't vicariously experienced, no event I haven't explored imaginatively.

So when these things happen to me - they're overly familiar. Every word, every impulse is a quotation or a cliché, and yet i find myself incapable of dealing with them on a human, emotional level.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Whats your favourite book? If you don't mind sharing it with us.

Lou said...

Wow this is unexpectedly profound. Like living in deja vu? Sounds awful. Take up smoking pot, it might help, I can't remember what happened in a book I read last week.

Benjamin Judge said...

Big bad bottom up your bottom with a bottom on his bottom and I ate all the marigold gloves with my left eye, squeezing the rubber through the iris like a dog eating a toad.

Benjamin Judge said...

Read that one before have you?

Benjamin Judge said...

Always glad to be of service

The Plashing Vole said...

OK, some scenarios are unexpected.