Stephen is imagining himself, many years later, as Joyce, writing "Ulysses" and imagining himself, many years earlier, as Stephen.
He was imagining himself in the middle of all that ass-getting, imagining himself in love with an Island girl.
Instead, he was prone to daydreaming, imagining himself on a beam of light rocketing through space.
During batting practice, he said, he'd stare at airplanes as they flew by, imagining himself in a seat.
But, unlike Jonathan Ross, it seems that Lily's anonymous ex is not imagining himself into her lyrics.
He is still imagining himself into being, still making it easier for others to do the same.
In "Summertime" he takes this schism one bracing step farther, by imagining himself already dead.
Glass stared, helplessly, imagining himself a goldfish in a clouded bowl.
That's the cloistered critic for you, imagining himself at the centre of the world.
He closes his eyes, as if imagining himself as Labour leader for the first time.
He is already imagining himself dangling from mountain ropes, slashing through rapids, biking up the trail.
