This isn't a failure of imagination: Miller was, as his many short stories show, well capable of imagining far-future worlds.
The thing is, any one who is capable of compassion, imagination or identification, wonders what it is to be someone else – to be better looking, uglier, or of a different race or age or gender or species.
Each of us has an expansive inner-world beyond daily routine, a consciousness (and subconscious) as capable of rich imagination and fun as doubt and mania, with emotional ranges that can surprise even ourselves.
I have come to believe that language is capable of inhabiting the imagination far more intensely than any picture.
People may feel removed from politics, he argues, but brands are still capable of capturing their imagination.
Simpson has already proved himself capable of bold, brilliant imagination in his orchestral music, works like Threads or A mirror-fragment … both of which he wrote in 2008.
In the face of this onslaught of privatisation, exclusion and austerity, students must articulate a clear political alternative – one that is capable of capturing the imagination of ordinary people.
They maintain that their followers, but not the pinks, are capable of developing an imagination; the Church teaches that Dobbs has empowered its members to see through these illusions.
And they include few flights of imagination capable of pulling us out of our seats and into the air.
