And yet his refusal to wake to the reality of his times can fog the clarity of his visions.
This immediate and fond contact with the realities of his time and place, as opposed to the bookishness of his first three works of fiction, gives "Heaven's My Destination" an extraordinary vitality and ease.
When he first arrived, he was deeply moved by the way he was taken care of by the British government, but over time the reality of his isolation has seeped in.
Henry both believes in the reality of his hallucinations and, at the same time, recognises that they are his own confabulations.
His first story collection, "The Elephant" (1957, translated 2010 by Konrad Syrop), distils the absurd realities of his time.An ideal foil to Solzhenitsyn's forensic tomes, these three-page tales mix paranoia with oblique plotting and mordant wit.
As the archival material makes clear, Tchaikovsky eventually succeeded in his adjustment to the social realities of his time, and there is no reason to believe that he was particularly neurotic or that his music possesses any coded messages, as some theorists have claimed.
Unlike Godwin (or, earlier, Rousseau), who viewed human affairs from a theoretical standpoint, Malthus was essentially an empiricist and took as his starting point the harsh realities of his time.
In accordance with the prevailing social realities of his time, namely the assumption that the daily care of infants and small children was undertaken by women and in particular, mothers, Bowlby referred primarily to mothers and "maternal" deprivation, although the words "parents" and "parental" are also used.
To articulate the relationship between Confucian moral idealism and the concrete social and political realities of his time, Mencius began by exposing as impractical the prevailing ideologies of Mozi's collectivism and Yang Zhu's individualism.
All these details demonstrate that Vigo was confronting, not running away from, the grim realities of his times.
