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?
I had to look up 'ex nihilo,' and I'm so glad I did. Thanks for reading and sharing your musings on imagination and creation. You've given me a lot to think about.
This was incredible and very moving, Amy. Brava.
Thanks for reading and for the kind comment, Peggy Jo! Glad you enjoyed it.
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?
I had to look up 'ex nihilo,' and I'm so glad I did. Thanks for reading and sharing your musings on imagination and creation. You've given me a lot to think about.