Any point on the globe where a famous writer has paused to pick up a pen has heated the imagination — and changed the travel plans — of besotted fans.
"Maps" shows these children as at once spoiled and deprived and destroyed, drowning in the void of the-sky's-the-limit and nothing-is-ever-enough, consuming their past to feed their dreams, or, to invert a phrase from "Histoire(s) du Cinéma," burning their reality to heat their imagination.
Indeed his entire biography of the pair can best be read as the product of a sweatily over-heated imagination.
In the end, the story seemed the product of an over-heated imagination fed by too many spy novels, so I was stunned to find the same character in the thick of the macabre and all too real murder of Litvinenko.
Here, Mr. Gordon played a hymn by himself, followed by one arranged for all the brass; the reeds sounded high alarm tones as Martha Jane's imagination heats up.
The Museum of Modern Art recently held a conference, "Things in the Making: Contemporary Architecture and the Pragmist Imagination," that featured heated conversations between star architects, Peter Eisenman and Rem Koolhaas, and star Neo-Pragmatist philosophers, Richard Rorty and Cornell West.
And they added that the notion that the suburbs feel cooler than the city isn't just based on civic pride or heat-addled imagination.
Sure, Mr. Ribot soloed often, with heat and imagination — he's a maestro of the blues-abstracted fever dream — but his exertions rarely had a chain effect within the band.
She burns before the audience, radiating not just the heat of her imagination but the glare of her critical intelligence.
Very few people believed her, but at school, a young law student defended her, then collapsed from the heat of his imagination.
In the popular imagination, heat-seeking surface-to-air missiles are simple to use and uncannily reliable, but many of them are far from fail-safe.
