That last phrase does what metaphor should do: it acts as a fiction inside the larger fiction, speeding us toward the instant imagining of something (and wittily, too).
Instead of Reid's instant capitulation, imagine a majority leader who started the conversation by saying "America strongly supports our position on Y.
And, for an instant, we imagined ourselves back home in a friendly hostelry.
Rather than just getting a taste of an app, as Android Instant App promises, imagine never having to download, update or delete an app ever again, but rather clicking on a link and instantly getting the same experience.
"Regardless of when they open up that email, they know they have the latest version of that file… you can imagine instant messaging applications as well would definitely benefit from this.
So we can forgive a certain raggedness ("Welcome to the rehearsal," he tells the audience) in a performance that includes Instant Karma, Imagine and a cover of Hound Dog.
So, you can imagine, an instant hamstring pain pull would cause the person to lurch," and the gun to accidentally fire toward Mr. Harding's head.
Or imagine an instant postcard from Paris with the Eiffel Tower in the background.
I have always had an infatuation with photography (so you can imagine my instant obsession when Instagram became a thing).
The cameraman's world stops for an instant as he imagines stern tellings off and P45s, crying over a bleak formica kitchen table at his wife, saying, "Nobody will hire me, Linda," saying, "not since I ran the world's most unstoppable athlete over with an absurd machine".
