Everything else in the store looked kind of trashy and cheap, tight and bedazzled; nothing like I imagined based on my Parisian experiences.
"I can't imagine, based on who your clientele is, that someone isn't friends with somebody on the board," said Susan Parker, who owns Bari Jay.
But how much can an individual life tell us about the country as a whole? Lee is skeptical of neat narrative-building: "The life of an individual that I paint and imagine based solely on photos may, in fact, be entirely different from the individual's actual life.
And we can just imagine, based on how he lived his life and what he did, what the lore of kind of having that kind of ancestor must have meant to him".
Dickens gave this tragedy (slightly downsized for plausibility) to Pip, who begins "Great Expectations" trying to imagine, based only on the shapes of their graves, what his parents and his five siblings were like.
With good spatial skills, they can imagine, based on a plan, how a building will look like, how beams will be assembled, or check on a plan whether what they built is correct.
For the historian however, it is so utterly incomplete that to imagine, based upon this single event Prou miraculously transforms into Blek le Rat a full decade later is as shockingly misguided as it has been for others to think that Banksy appeared out of thin air without the foreknowledge of Blek Le Rat's career afore hand".
As humans it is easy to imagine, based on popular literature, that a pioneer is epitomized by the intrepid explorer, strong and bold, pushing back frontiers despite hardships and challenges.
Distortion of reality compounds itself when you believe in a future you imagine, based on what you make up about the past.
I had imagined, based on Luria's case study and the mythology that had grown up around it, a Soviet Funes, with flawless and involuntary recollection of his past.
