We become attached to certain characters in novels, mostly because they have some mystery attaching to them.
Not only do we become attached and engaged to the characters, we travel with them on their dark journeys.
But, she warned, every time we become attached to a device our sense of our lives is changed.
"If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes — and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history," Solomon writes.
And the size of the ensemble means that characters we become attached to, like Mr. Biggs's Larry Bloom, will disappear for long stretches.
Beginning with our first success in childhood, we become attached to what we believe are our strengths in temperament and talent, which enabled us to win.
When we live with ideas for a long time, we become attached to them -- so attached to them, in fact, that we forget that, as writers, we control our own worlds.
We become attached to what we already have, even if the gain is the same.
The problem is when we become attached to words or certain words and forget that while the word is not the thing, words as symbols and tools effectively can use, abuse and control us because we value them and their meaning too highly.
These sources of "infotainment" don't contain many role models at all and if fictional, can be shallow reflections of other people, or are realistic enough that we become attached to them even though they aren't real, and mourn for them in our own way when the character dies or the series is discontinued.
