immersed in creation

"Fiction specifically is an organic whole and allows you to immerse yourself and your mind in another mind's vision. The reading experience is quite intense, really, and to my mind, not well understood or even much talked about. Directed dreaming while awake is one shorthand, but that leaves out the language component, that is, most of the picture. Many think language is what makes us human; reading therefore makes us more human, more intensely ourselves. Reading is a creative experience for the reader, and fiction involves the most intense creative process on the part of the reader. That creative process is what energizes my love of reading and fiction in particular."
--Rick Kleffel, NPR Correspondent

stupid is as stupid does

"You're not stupid. You're just in Congress."
--Gust L. Avrakotos character in Charlie Wilson's War