These two cases -- one of imagination searching back into a vanished reality, the other of a recorded reality provoking imaginative extension and contemplation -- were the double doors into Mr. Bryars's future.
Both Sad Will and Bad Will suffer from a bad case of inflamed imagination - a sort of emotional genital herpes.
Probably just a case of your imagination filling in the gaps with the worst thing possible.
By then, some Iraqis had concluded that it might all be a case of hyperactive imaginations, or perhaps a mild form of the hysteria sometimes brought on by war.
What she has made in this case – thanks to a rare fusion of imagination and intellect, sensual poetry and cerebral prose, youthful joy and elderly wisdom – is an entire world, compressed but energetically alive in all its details.
Roughly, mere supposition is what is involved in simple cases of hypothetical reasoning, whereas vivid imagination is what is involved in aesthetic participation, engaged pretense, or absorbing games of make-believe.
Hume recognizes a very small class of cases for which imagination association is not needed to recognize beauty.
Miles and Wood also highlight the political elements of the story, likening the portrayal of the Eternals to the view of the upper classes as "effete parasites feeding off the labour (and in this case the imagination) of the proles".
When you reinterpret Shereshevsky's story as a case of an extraordinary imagination, other aspects of his mind come into sharper focus.
In the latter case of the poetic imagination an increase of intensity is more likely to be regulated by the acquired psychic nexus.
