In another, a machine tracked the eye movements of people reading "Sense and Sensibility".
To measure mind wandering more directly, Dr. Schooler and two psychologists at the University of Pittsburgh, Erik D. Reichle and Andrew Reineberg, used a machine that tracked the movements of people's eyes while reading "Sense and Sensibility" on a computer screen.
Margaret, we're told, "did not have a fine sensibility, or, even, a female sensibility" — when reading books, she does not tear up over the death of Little Nell in "The Old Curiosity Shop" or the passing of Beth in "Little Women".
"Structurally that confession bookends the long story Brandon tells her," says the lesbian of a stretch of "Sense and Sensibility": after reading only two of the novels, the computer geek is ready to suggest that "Austen's minor characters are [as] good as Dickens's".Interspersed with this high-level literary discussion is a staccato sequence of times remembered.
Go in with any sort of contemporary sensibility, and reading The Republic will be like slowly realizing the handsome, Ivy-league doctor you've been set up on a date with is actually an unhinged, Trump-esque loon shuttled through society via patriarchal privilege.
I have read Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.
It dovetails nicely, for me, with the Protestant work ethic and more specifically a United Church (read: Methodist-y) sensibility that I was raised with.
Some travel writers seem so permanently imbued with a Deep Travel sensibility that just reading their books can evoke a similar state of mind, even in the armchair-bound.
It's hard to imagine that the viewers who are interested in "Good Time" or "Beach Rats" or "Columbus" would be anything but amused by such scores, and that they would be guided by such artificial consensus than by reading reviews by critics whose sensibility they find related to their own.
Or, to cite activities that have actually been studied in the laboratory, when you're sitting by yourself reading "War and Peace" or "Sense and Sensibility".
But Barbara Kruger is most like-minded in sensibility and in the ambition to fuse reading and seeing, taking language beyond words so that it becomes immersive and experiential.
