"When we read fiction, we pour our own particular store of emotions -
say, the sense of loss we feel for those disappeared from our lives -
into the characters set before us. We take the few words with which
the writer sketches these characters, the things he said, the pain she
felt, where they were, and our own emotional stockpile magically creates
people. As the human eye fleshes out the pixilated image. Fictional
characters are highly sophisticated Rorschach blots, and we, along with
their author, are their authors. When you read a fictional character,
you too are creating her."
(Chandler Burr, You or Someone Like You)
Photo: Zachary Su
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