Huge swathes of imaginative literature concern things that don't exist, and as it happens, things that don't exist feature particularly prominently in the English literary tradition.
When it was properly done, as in Austen, Whately said, imaginative literature concerned itself with generalised human experience from which the reader could gain important insights into human nature; in other words, it was moral.
The novels sustain the cult of the heart's affections that was central to that tradition, but they also share with the first Romantics a concern for the status of man in nature and for his imaginative life, a concern that remains important to an age that has turned against other aspects of Romanticism.
Inspired by this connection, I was set out to explore some of the same formal concerns and imaginative, colorful sensuality found in the work of the master.
A good deal of 19th 20th century Western imaginative literature has been concerned with emptiness, as has a certain type of Existentialist philosophy and some forms of the Death of God movement.
No doubt he was an inspiring military leader who fired his army with religious fervour and whose personal intrepidity, imaginative tactics, and constant concern for his men evoked their love and loyalty.
Irrespective of the concern with the privacy of the experience, if they attribute different properties to the object that is, they find different properties in their respective total imaginative experiences they are simply concerned with different objects, and their verdicts are compatible.
It reminds me of a moment in Middlemarch, the English novel most concerned with such imaginative sympathy: One morning, some weeks after her arrival at Lowick, Dorothea – but why always Dorothea?
The first story concerns Julia as an imaginative little fake detective and not totally comprehending that her parents had a miscarriage.
You want these instruments to allow you to be more imaginative, and that would be my concern about modelling guitars like the Line 6 Variax, which replicates the sound of existing guitars.
