Till Human Voices Wake Us

[poliphilo]

I've been finding recently that when I walk away from a work of fiction- a film or a book- its atmosphere briefly clings to me- so that I find myself having to remind myself that such and such an issue belongs to the characters I've left behind and not to me.  It's not unlike the adjustment one has to make on waking from a vivid dream.  I asked Ailz if she had ever had the same experience and she said, yes, all the time and for as long as she can remember. For me, though,  it's a novelty. 

Comments

[trixibelle-net.livejournal.com]

Yes I absolutely always get that too. It's part of the reason I have to wait a day or a week before I start a new book, I have to wait until the residue of the previous one has been shaken off.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I agree about leaving a gap between books. I like to have time to reflect upon a book before I launch into the next one. I remember, as a child, finding it very difficult to move on from a book I had loved