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This might also be an issue of control. Your comment made me realize that, while I like reading and performing for others, I'm not so keen on sitting passively and listening (unless someone's onstage). I think of that as a failing and not a virtue on my part, but perhaps it has something to do with my frustration with audio books. Visual books leave all inner senses to the reader's discretion.
Have you ever known people who couldn't read the novel Perfume because they couldn't bear to smell that which was being described? ("I don't like living in my nostrils," an irked reader explained.) Perhaps audio books create similar issues for some of us.
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