Arguably, imagination, mind-wandering, and taking another's perspective have in common a substantial change from the current cognitive context.
"Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind," as Trilling put it, "we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like".
In the final chapters, Beaumont's history becomes a celebration of the transgressive wellsprings of the imagination: the mind at play in the dark.
Maybe Aimar shanked it or maybe he was using his imagination, his mind working at a furious pace to tell him how he could catch out the unsuspecting Levante goalkeeper; other than using the outside of his left foot in that position, it is arguably only a rabona that would have created the necessary spin and swerve on the ball.
The artist James Turrell plays similar tricks in his installations, which saturate the imagination with mind-boggling colours, and subvert reality.
Then, as unprofitable tech outfits caught the popular imagination, creative minds began monkeying with pro forma to show how wonderful the cool upstarts were without all that distracting stuff like acquisition and restructuring expenses.
You're loosening up your unfettered imagination — making your mind deliver".
On this issue, a quotation from Einstein comes to mind: "Imagination is more important than knowledge".
But in the space around the panels we have the non-literal realm of the mind — imagination, fears, memory, delusions, and of course ghosts.
The theatricality of the non-human world is drawn out as Jamie's shape-shifting, metaphorical imagination startles the mind awake through unsettling convergences.
Edward Lear is even more of a puzzle: a strange, itinerant figure whose restless imagination and peculiar mind put him at odds with much of Victorian convention.
