![]() The researchers coined the term “experiential crossing” to describe the phenomenon of a literary character leaping from the page and into the reader’s everyday life. Some People Like the Voices in Their Heads ![]() ![]() It’s like having your own personal, portable Atticus Finch or Albus Dumbledore, at your service for insightful commentary on the modern Muggle world. According to a new (and truly delightful) psychology study - published in the March edition of the journal Cognition and Consciousness - about a fifth of readers “hear” the voices of fictional characters in their heads, long after they’ve closed the books. ![]() For some people, though, this idea is a little more literal. Many readers - every reader? - could’ve told you that. The voices of some of literature’s more memorable characters have a way of staying with you, long after their stories are over. ![]() (Just as Emma Woodhouse might confess that she did not “feel equal” to a particular task, neither, in May, did I.) Everything and everyone was phony every glimpse of school-bathroom wall scribblings reminded me how “you can’t ever find a place that’s nice and peaceful, because there isn’t any.” A similar thing happened last spring after a Jane Austen binge, when I noticed myself accidentally slipping into 19th-century-tinged language. For weeks after I read The Catcher in the Rye for the first time, it was like my middle school life was suddenly being narrated by Holden Caulfield. ![]()
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