Let's not even get into this book's fictional "legend" chapters, printed on gray paper, in which Mr. Clemons has extended imaginary run-ins with people like Thomas Pynchon, Norman Mailer, Richard Brautigan and the surfer Laird Hamilton.
Set in an imaginary run-down hotel and catching the clamour of voices lost in it, Escalator features a rock band led by Jack Bruce (with McLaughlin on guitar) and an eastern group led by Don Cherry, both offering the hotel guests – including Linda Ronstadt as the character Ginger – a way out.
Leslie Johnson, Michelle LaRue, Jennifer Phillips, Kristine Willis and Ms. Wood burst from imaginary running blocks only to race in tight circles.
"He just lives for this," Lea Fastow said as the young one rounded the bases after hitting an imaginary home run served up by his dad.
This included Langer hitting imaginary shots, running all of his runs, and according to legend, raising his bat to the imaginary crowd on completion of his hundred.
"The Imaginary Invalid" runs through Dec. 12 at 80 St. Mark's Place in the East Village.
He wanted desperately to get a hit, to drill that imaginary three-run double that would have put the Mets in the World Series.
Undaunted, Mondrian fashioned a rectangle in this rhomboid, implying its sides with imaginary lines running between the backs of easels and his few pieces of furniture.
Consequently, by the time Sanchez reached Australia's box, centre-back Wilkinson and right-back Franjic were in perfect vertical alignment along an imaginary line running through the penalty spot.
The Resonance Ensemble, which likes to pair modern works with the classics that inspired them, has a version of Molière's "Imaginary Invalid" running in repertory with a new comedy by Charles L. Mee called "The Mail Order Bride".
