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Ever read a good book and start mimicing it? - 2/26/2007 1:55:12 AM   
TheGaggingWh0re


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Status: offline 		Right now I'm right in the middle of a series, and like any book, whether it is amazing or not, I start to talk as they do. When in highschool I was in a class called British Literature to which I read books like Wuthering Heights. Frankenstein, and Jane Eyre (and Alice in Wonderland on my own time), and ended up speaking and typing in old English for a month after I had read them, after Memoirs of a Geisha I was walking around and performing very graceful movements with whatever I did. At the moment I am, without any shame what so ever, reading the Harry Potter series, and am finding myself throwing British slang as if I were no stranger to the country. I can't tell you how many times I've said 'bloody' or 'bollucks', or any other word that is not usually used here in America.

Is anyone else as influenced as I am with books? I'm starting to think that these claims that TV is the most influential thing can easily extend into books, it just appeals to different brain chemistries as it's not a visual enjoyment so much as an imaginitive one.

I shiver to think what sort of words and what kind of activities I'll brandish when I read a new book, especially if it has anything to do with D/s :P
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RE: Ever read a good book and start mimicing it? - 2/26/2007 6:39:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		sure, it happens. i recommend Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, by Louise Rennison. It's a teenage Bridget Jones-type series. provides tons of outlandish opportunities for mimicry.
well, i'm away laughing on a fast camel

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RE: Ever read a good book and start mimicing it? - 2/26/2007 6:50:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		When I was young my friends and I were influenced by the Beats and we started traveling round and writing poetry and using idioms they used. I guess it was superficial because when punk happened in '76 we were back to calling everyone a 'wanker' and being totally obnoxious and nihilistic as punks were so reading books was out.(Though of course they weren't really nihilistic, it was just a fashion, a middle class pretence at being workingclass)

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RE: Ever read a good book and start mimicing it? - 2/26/2007 6:57:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		Ah,....no.

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RE: Ever read a good book and start mimicing it? - 2/26/2007 7:08:32 AM   
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RE: Ever read a good book and start mimicing it? - 2/26/2007 7:12:24 AM   
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Status: offline 		Yanno, yes.  My family was... dysfunctional to say the least.  Growing up, I found reading books a way to get away with that; but spending almost 18 hours a day as a kid with a nose in the book does the same thing watching, say, 18 hours a day of Star Trek or the like.  (ahem.)

As an adult, though, I find myself thinking in the author's style, if I'm reading more than an hour a day.  It usually wears off after a few minutes.  I don't see any of it as a bad thing, so long as we remember where the lines of reality are.  Erm, as long as you had an idea in the first place.  Sort of.

Lately I've been reading Michner and Uris stuff myself.

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RE: Ever read a good book and start mimicing it? - 2/26/2007 7:18:12 AM   
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Status: offline 		I find myself quoting from nearly every book i read. I personally am much more influenced by the written word than anything i see on a tv screen. I disappear into my own little world with a book and quite often find myself fantasising about being one of its characters. The last book i read i was Justine and in the one im reading now im juliette!! They are complete paradoxes but i can slip into either world quite well lol.  

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RE: Ever read a good book and start mimicing it? - 2/26/2007 7:37:54 AM   
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Status: offline 		We become what we focus on :)  It's most noticeable to me after I've watched a few Firefly episodes again.

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RE: Ever read a good book and start mimicing it? - 2/26/2007 10:29:52 AM   
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Status: offline 		Haha, good to see I'm not the only one out there who, when they look up from a few pages, thinks, "Wow...<insert character phrase here>, hehe". I swear I'm going to be one sad person when this series ends. I have to admit, fantasy is my cup of tea, even if I have a few alternatives like The Fountainhead and Dante's Inferno that I still need to read, but still...I haven't quite raced through books as excitedly as I have with these and Memoirs.

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We become what we focus on :)  It's most noticeable to me after I've watched a few Firefly episodes again.


Ugh, I know! Usually TV doesn't influence me too much other than me wanting to dance after a dancing movie, or sing after a singing movie, or design behavior training methods after Dog Whisperer, but I do admit that after watching the show "Charmed", I wish most of how all that stuff worked were real. Most. I love that show!

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RE: Ever read a good book and start mimicing it? - 2/26/2007 10:43:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		Now, if I hear a good piece of fiddle music somewhere I'll try to mimic it on my fiddle.
Unless it's, "The flight of the bumble bees" or something like that.

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RE: Ever read a good book and start mimicing it? - 2/26/2007 10:47:06 AM   
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250

Now, if I hear a good piece of fiddle music somewhere I'll try to mimic it on my fiddle.
Unless it's, "The flight of the bumble bees" or something like that.


That works :P
I'm more talking about behavior mimicry, but hey, mimicry is mimicry!

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RE: Ever read a good book and start mimicing it? - 2/26/2007 1:12:08 PM   
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Status: offline 		When I read Watership Down, I went around eating a lot of carrots and lettuce.

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RE: Ever read a good book and start mimicing it? - 2/26/2007 1:26:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		I don't start speaking the way the characters speak, no; but when I write, I do tend to mimic the author's style if it was a book that was a particularly pleasant read.

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RE: Ever read a good book and start mimicing it? - 2/26/2007 3:42:07 PM   
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When I read Watership Down, I went around eating a lot of carrots and lettuce.


I do that too! Once I read a book when I was little that talked about eating green pea soup. They described in so well that I asked my mum to buy me some. Turned out I didn't care for it.

Then, in another book I really didn't care for, they talked about bran muffins. Guess what? I had bran muffins for months before I decided I didn't like them anymore, lol! Kept me regular, though! Haha.

I hate it when I watch movies with chocolate in it. Always makes me want chocolate.

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RE: Ever read a good book and start mimicing it? - 2/26/2007 7:28:50 PM   
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At the moment I am, without any shame what so ever, reading the Harry Potter series, and am finding myself throwing British slang as if I were no stranger to the country. I can't tell you how many times I've said 'bloody' or 'bollucks', or any other word that is not usually used here in America.


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