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S32E9 - Misunderstandings Between the Reader and the Story
Psychology of the Reader 5/30/22 Psychology of the Reader 5/30/22

S32E9 - Misunderstandings Between the Reader and the Story

Language is the source of misunderstandings. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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S23 Bonus - Evoking the Right Emotions in the Reader
Psychology of the Reader 5/28/22 Psychology of the Reader 5/28/22

S23 Bonus - Evoking the Right Emotions in the Reader

The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out, and taken yours. - The History Boys

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S32E8 - The Debate About Trigger Warnings
Psychology of the Reader 5/25/22 Psychology of the Reader 5/25/22

S32E8 - The Debate About Trigger Warnings

I wondered, reading about the college discussions, whether, one day, people would put a trigger warning on my fiction. I wondered whether or not they would be justified in doing it. And then I decided to do it first. - Neil GaimanThe idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to. - John Cleese

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S32E7 - The Reader and the Fourth Wall
Psychology of the Reader 5/23/22 Psychology of the Reader 5/23/22

S32E7 - The Reader and the Fourth Wall

Hey! Yeah, you! I'm down here, busting my ***, while you sit on yours watching me jump around? How is that fair? -Deadpool

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S32E4 - Because I Said So: When Readers Accept Fudged Facts
Psychology of the Reader 5/12/22 Psychology of the Reader 5/12/22

S32E4 - Because I Said So: When Readers Accept Fudged Facts

You can make anything by writing. - C.S. Lewis

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S32E2 - Reading to Escape
Psychology of the Reader 5/5/22 Psychology of the Reader 5/5/22

S32E2 - Reading to Escape

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are. - Mason Cooley

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