He was a child when he first stood in Kirkhelleren and thought, "Imagine how cool it would be to play an electric guitar in here".
Knowing that this would be visible in this shoot, and that this shoot wouldn't be airbrushed at all, was so scary, but I always think: Imagine how incredible it would've been for my younger self to come across this image, and how maybe that could've helped him not hate his body or want to change it.
Whether Lucy or Alice is narrating, Mangan's diction has the archaic gentility of someone incorrectly imagining how previous generations thought and spoke.
I'm saying that what we really need to think about, when imagining how things are going to pan out, is how to leave our own past behind, gracefully.
I used to think I was imagining how bad my unit was, that maybe I was delusional as well as depressed, but now I suspect not – 10 years on, the woeful lack of provision for mentally ill teenagers frequently appears in the news and on TV.
That's hard to believe for all sorts of practical reasons, but beyond that, writing is about imagining how others think and feel and how that informs their behaviour; it is about offering a different way of seeing and in so doing it creates empathy.
"Even if it doesn't turn out perfectly, I still think I would not have imagined how well we have done," Mr. Brady said from his downtown office, as he did what people in his role do at this point — wait, and occasionally go to the gym.
"I don't think anyone could have imagined how bad it was going to get".
So if your children have a father in their lives, no matter what may have transpired, even if you are going through the most bitter divorce you can imagine, try to think how this will affect them and their relationship for the rest of their lives.
"Uncomfortable," said Jon Phillips at PC World, adding that after two days of testing, he thought he could imagine how Lindsay Lohan must have felt when forced to wear a police ankle bracelet.
