What does that mean? It is quite simple: he has used his imagination to portray people who do not really exist, has invented experiences for them and woven it all together. In broad terms that, or something like it, is the general opinion. Everyone assumes they know what imagination is, but there are very few who are aware of the remarkable forms of imaginative power that exist. What is one to say when one’s hand, usually such a willing tool of the mind, suddenly refuses to write the name of the hero of the story one has thought up, and insists on choosing a different one instead? Is it not enough to make one pause and ask oneself, “Am I really the one who is ‘creating’ this work, or is my imagination merely some kind of receiver for supernatural communications? Something like what is called, in the sphere of wireless telegraphy, an aerial?” There have been cases of people getting up in their sleep at night and completing pieces of writing, which, tired from the day’s toil, they had left unfinished, and finding better solutions than they would probably have been capable of when awake.
What do You think about The White Dominican (2012)?
