"For a long time, a very long time, if you wanted to get a real education, Harvard was the place, the sure place, to go — and poets tend to be people who are voracious, who want to read, know, feel, imagine as much as possible.
If it is to exercise sympathy or pay a debt to memory, then it quickly becomes clear that the exercise is hopeless, the debt overwhelming: there is no way to feel as much, remember as much, imagine as much as the dead justly demand.
And he has spent his 40-year career, Mr. Roth said, as "a free American," imagining as much as he has been able to in the native tongue by which he is "gratefully enslaved".
To be clear, the role of the metamodern politician is, in this imagining, as much to create an environment in which ideologues and cynics struggle to practice their politics -- and to cause sufficient disruption to business-as-usual that all stakeholders are forced to innovate new ways of doing business -- as it is to be the flag-bearer for any one discrete political agenda.
This!" Much, I imagine, as they squeal every week.
In Britain, though, it is often taken as a soothing bedtime drink, an aid to slumber rather than seduction suggesting that its effects may be as much imagined as real.
Garden cities, pioneered in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, by Ebenezer Howard in 1898, were originally imagined as a philosophy as much as a plan for development.
And then to imagine - as much as possible - below the conscious and unconscious analysis, below conscience, past any sort of personal defence or agenda (again, whether philosophical, psychological, political, emotional) to a place of undefended thought and feeling.
Which is why it's hard to imagine Ms. Friedan as much of a homebody.
