“It is not hard to imagine a ghost successfully. What is hard is to imagine successfully an object, any object, that does not look like a ghost.”
Elaine Scarry, Dreaming By The Book (1999)
ADDENDUM : More on this at Think Of England
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“It is not hard to imagine a ghost successfully. What is hard is to imagine successfully an object, any object, that does not look like a ghost.”
Elaine Scarry, Dreaming By The Book (1999)
ADDENDUM : More on this at Think Of England
Ah good, this will make a fine addition to my stock of Things to Announce With Absolute Confidence At Dinner Parties.
Brit : “Things to Announce With Absolute Confidence At Dinner Parties”. The title of a Think Of England blog postage, surely?
Certainly it would. Will get on the case.
I’m still waiting for you to do that one about Dobson baking all the pies in the nursery rhymes, by the way….
Ah yes, pies. I must give them some thought.