The film is based on one of the ripest true stories of political chicanery, stranger than fiction and something to be savoured by anyone who remembers the moment in the Godfather when the Don himself fantasises about the idea of "Senator Corleone".
The generosity! Uplifting gay stories will soon be everywhere, fantasised the western world's queer scene, readjusting their rainbow-dyed parachute pants.
Tootling Mozart's clarinet concerto on his pawnshop-bought instrument, he fantasised the impossible, a career on the concert stage as a classical musician.
Exiles' Cafe was inspired by hearing Michael Sahl's "Tango from the Exiles' Cafe", after which Lara Downes fantasised the location as a source of comfort for transplanted composers, represented by this series of piano miniatures.
As I left, utterly defeated, the clanking sound I heard was, I fantasised, the dustbin of history closing firmly on Stockhausen's early experiments in the banality of sound.
In this autobiographical novel, his longest to date, Ballard renounced the urge to fantasise: the story of young Jim having a high old time in the Lunghua camp while death stalked the perimeter was outlandish enough.
Also included are an earlier poem he wrote fantasising the abdication of King Charles III, some poems about Bosnia, a couple more on his adultery, a suite of poems for his sick son and another to a friend who died.
Just fantasise the lighting plan: chandeliers jerked up for storm lightning, the masque processing up on to stage with torches, Prospero's magic set out on the floor in arcanas of candles, and Ariel's single taper sparking all over the house.
Maybe it's just my obsessive nature, my need for romance, combining to fantasise the past because the present seems such a fucking scary hardship?
"So far, so good, truthfully," nods White, who says he "basically loves Kendrick Lamarr more than any other artist on the planet" and fantasises about the collective working in hip-hop.
