Description begins with visualization of what it is you want the reader to experience.
By allowing us, the readers, inside Roger's head and heart we experience what he experiences.
His column was in charge of technical problems which readers might experience with hardware.
While readers experience the story through these spirits, the focus is on the sense of doom that follows those left behind.
Their adventures allow readers to vicariously experience an escape from the mundane.
So the reader in the late 19th century could put down "Looking Backward" and experience a sort of double vision.
That, though, is not how most readers experience them.
It's a wide range, and your readers have actually experienced only some of those feelings.
Around this point in the novel, some readers may experience a certain sinking sensation.
Upon seeing the word, readers experience a panic reaction.