The cosmos is not called “The Creation” for nothing. If this all happened “ex nihilo,” it is the greatest act of Imagination ever and circumscribes our world. To imagine what you have not actually experienced is a requirement of human intelligence. Relativity and Indeterminacy started out as intuitions and became “experience” through diligent exercise of the mind. They, too, were unborn until given berth and birth in imagination.
The magnificent excerpt from your novel proves and affirms the peerless power of Imagination. I keep telling friends that we don’t need Jedi; we need artists. To constantly dream of saving the world through Disney phantasmagoria contributes to its destruction by substituting fantasy for fact. Red wheel barrows are still the best and only grails ever seen. What’s out your window?
This was incredible and very moving, Amy. Brava.
The cosmos is not called “The Creation” for nothing. If this all happened “ex nihilo,” it is the greatest act of Imagination ever and circumscribes our world. To imagine what you have not actually experienced is a requirement of human intelligence. Relativity and Indeterminacy started out as intuitions and became “experience” through diligent exercise of the mind. They, too, were unborn until given berth and birth in imagination.
The magnificent excerpt from your novel proves and affirms the peerless power of Imagination. I keep telling friends that we don’t need Jedi; we need artists. To constantly dream of saving the world through Disney phantasmagoria contributes to its destruction by substituting fantasy for fact. Red wheel barrows are still the best and only grails ever seen. What’s out your window?