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5882108 No.5882108 [Reply] [Original]

Have you noticed that many times, instead of imagining a place described in a book from scratch, you take a place you know and just build up from there?

>mfw every description of a fireplace I read I imagine as essentially the one at my home but redecorated

>> No.5882130

No.
Maybe I should do that though because I'm really bad at imagining places.

>> No.5882603

It probably is that way but I haven't noticed it.

>> No.5882975

>>5882108
Sometimes.

For example, when I read HP, I imagined something entirely new. Same with the early parts of APOTAAYM. Entirely new world.

The last time I was listening to an audiobook(Borges' Library of Babel), I first imagined my university's library and stripped it to create Borges' library. When I listened to Breakfast at Tiffany's I imagined my college's bar and my best friend's UES apartment. When I read Burmese days, I built it upon my home in Darjeeling.