“Just shy of the reality we now occupy, ‘The Atmospherians’ is full of visceral, often sickening emotion, as expressed through Sasha’s impulsive shifts in mood and impressionability.

Now, teaching students of the same age, she is mindful both of their potential and their impressionability.

However, before that, he was an abused and neglected child who, at an age of maximum psychological impressionability, fell under the sway of a fully grown monster, Muhammad, and was manipulated into joining an insane mass-murder plot.

In Shakespeare, it’s the unpleasant characters, such as Parolles, who make fun of other people’s impressionability.

Bearing in mind the impressionability of a sleepy child’s psyche and the position of power the reader holds, often it borders on creepy indoctrination.