Have you ever looked up from a book and suddenly feel as if you had left yourself in the story and physically landed in another fiction?
I was reading this book (forgot the name) on the Amish on the bus, half squashed by this really fat woman sitting next to me and willing her to get off the bus, which she did not until the stop before mine, and totally engrossed in the Amish world. Then I decided to look up and check where I was and it was a really “body-leaving” experience, as if I didn’t really belong in this world and Amish world was where I belong. Curious effect although it didn’t last long – I was suffering from motion sickness.
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