Hopelessness is the ultimate failure of imagination.
That ultimate reliance on the imagination is what has earned Browne admirers like Herman Melville, Jorge Luis Borges, and W. G. Sebald, all writers that shared his sense of endless wonder.
These tendencies toward the fantastic in Christian expression reached their literary peak in the works of Dante (1265 1321), whose Divine Comedy depicts the terrifying and attractive visions of Paradise, Purgatory, and Hell in such a way as to quicken the ultimate powers of the imagination and thereby draw the reader toward the effective images of the mystery of their own salvation.
What grows, for better or worse, from the imagination is the ultimate subject of this sometimes brilliant, energetic, and original play, directed by Erica Schmidt.
Egan's clever scenario presents Danny's mental liberation as both thrilling and dangerous — imagination is the ultimate drug, she suggests — and the novel luxuriates in Wilkie Collins-style atmospherics.
I was educated about the Holocaust, and the camps were always a place in my imagination and the ultimate moral arena where you would be driven to think about how you would behave.
Anthony Pompliano, a venture capitalist who is prone to posting bullish, cryptocurrency-related aphorisms on Twitter ("Bitcoin is the ultimate test of someone's imagination"), reassured his eighty-three thatsand followers that it was almost certainly the latter.
I read Huxley's "The Doors of Perception" and "Heaven and Hell" when they came out, in the nineteen-fifties, and I was especially excited by his speaking of the geography of the imagination and its ultimate realm — the "antipodes of the mind".
Made for $400,000, the film's combination of drugs, rock music, violence, a counter-culture stance and motorcycles as ultimate freedom machines caught the imagination of the young, made pop icons of Hopper and Fonda on their bikes and took over $16m at the box office.
Shute's 1957 imagination of the ultimate nuclear nightmare (1961 - 1963) should encourage responsible parties to get past rhetoric, dismissive assurances, and wishful thinking.
