It takes a gigantic leap of imagination to stand in front of a dilapidated power plant and envisage its potential as a hotel.
Nørgård himself quotes one listener who describes this 35-minute work as "a walk with a fire-breathing dragon", an image that says something about the gigantic power and imagination of this piece, which changes in a second from the surreal sounds of sirens, whistles, wind machines and bird-calls to brassy explosions, swirling string writing – and silence.
It doesn't take a gigantic leap of imagination to suppose this flight was working to provide reconnaissance for Special Forces folks in the area.
But one can only wonder if the entire caboodle of our universe is not the outburst of some gigantic extra-cosmos writerly imagination.
By the time I was nine, in 1956, it resembled, in my imagination, a gigantic slab of my aged maiden aunt's butterscotch, which she made for me as a special treat, annually, a month before Christmas.
The vision is often gigantic.
"Imagine," intoned Punch magazine in 1888, "the effect of gigantic pictures of violence and assassination by knife and pistol on the morbid imagination of an unbalanced mind".
In reality, aurochs were cattle, but as summoned up by Hushpuppy's imagination and Zeitlin's effects department, they become a gigantic breed of tusked pot-bellied pig – rampaging Hogzillas.
He played gigantic conceptions, full of outrageous and unprecedented ideas.... [H]e had great imagination; he could see more deeply into a situation than any other player in chess history..
Last night, Beck performed his fascism spiel from the bottom of a movie-screen with gigantic, slow-moving images of the government officials who dominate him in his imagination.
