Imagine trying to learn biology without ever using the word "organism".
But imagine trying to learn, say, Mandarin, without so much as a translated dictionary.
Now I imagine that to learn that your mother was in a porno at all would be a heartbreaking and shocking thing, but to be told mommy got porked by 620 guys over the course of a day would really fuck a kid up.
Amy Adler Toledo, Ohio, Aug. 21, 2008 To the Editor: Re "Malcontents Need Not Apply," by Nicholas D. Kristof (column, Aug. 17): Imagine my surprise to learn from Mr. Kristof that China is "no longer a totalitarian state".
So imagine my surprise to learn that Michael Fassbender – an actor who, as far as I'm aware, has never gone near Shakespeare with a barge pole – had been handed the leading role instead.
Imagine my shock to learn that while I was away the House had pushed through a budget that would eliminate support for Title X, the federal program that is the foundation of health care for the poorest of our nation's women.
Receiving her award, Seminar playwright and writer of the new television series Smash, Theresa Rebeck began her speech, imagine my astonishment to learn that Lizz and I have the same mother.
Imagine waking up to learn that you are no longer recognized as a citizen of the country in which you were born -- the only country you have ever called home.
(We first met Bob in The Smith Family Chronicles 1: Jane Smith Comes Out To Her Evangelical Father; imagine our surprise to learn, along with Bob in SFC 4, "Hello, I Am Your Son," that Bob has another son he never knew about, a Muslim named Hussein).
Imagine being able to learn without dialing a single digit whether another person's phone is in use, or in the case of a cellphone, whether it is even turned on.
