The worth of comments

[Gregory Ewing]

Grant Edwards wrote:

> After hearing/reading somebody for years, I don't seem to have a
> detailed image of them in my head, but when I finally do see a picture
> of them, my initial reaction is almost always "no, that's not at all
> what I thought he/she looked like".

It works the other way, too. I've known what Terry Pratchett looks
like for many years from the pictures on his books. When I heard
him on the radio for the first time recently, I thought, "Wait
a minute, that's not what his voice is supposed to sound like!"

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Greg