A film stampedes across your imagination and does the work for you; a novel forces you to turn letters into words into scenes and make sense of characters. Netflix is passive and easy; reading is active, so there is more resistance.
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When you go to see a film it just goes stampeding across your imagination. You don't need your imagination when you see a film; it's all there.
- Reading makes you do the film's work
Reading forces the imagination to do the work a film does for you: turning letters into words into sentences, remembering it all, and working out why characters behave as they do.