Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
Francis SpuffordI can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.
Francis SpuffordWhen I'm tired and therefore indecisive, it can take half an hour to choose the book I am going to have with me while I brush my teeth.
Francis SpuffordIf your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser – and steal the contents of books by reading them. I drank down 1984 while loitering in the 'O' section of the giant Heffers store in Cambridge. When I was full I carried the slopping vessel of my attention carefully out of the shop.
Francis Spufford