You know what I like to do? Not that much anymore; I used to do it all the time when I was little. You should try it. When you're about to start a new book—it should be a novel for it to really work—open to a page pretty far in, near the end but not really at the end. Read one line. Read it really hard and carefully, thinking about it as you read it, and then go do something else, or go back to the beginning and start the book. When in your reading you finally do get to the line you will have mostly forgotten having done this, so when you read the familiar line in the middle of this story you're so immersed in with characters you've come to know, etc., the line will startle you like a jolt of deja vu and it will feel so much like real deja vu for just a second that it will feel like a fragment from your own imagination and the book, for just that second, will be real.
Here’s another one.
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