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!" -- Greg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list