Subject: imagine ...
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Tue Apr 03 2001 - 03:24:50 GMT
'... Yet he is unaware that imagination is his friend ...'
I know people who look on imagination as their enemy.
One or two were driven literally mad by it.
One can use one's fantasy to escape - perhaps rather
briefly - into dreams of immeasurable opportunity &
enjoyment. But it seems to me that the power to imagine
oneself into the worlds of other people, other creatures,
is really more like a terrible curse. The central reality
of the world appears to be pain. When one's grasp
of that reality is lit by imaginative empathy I can
understand how unbearable it must be for some people.
I've always thought of Holden's comical contortions
as his reaction to that fundamental awareness of the hurt
& ugliness that lies at the heart of things.
Scottie B.
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