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At the end, before he can run away and
start a new life, it starts to rain. He folds.
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There's nothing wrong in writing about
emotional and intellectual paralysis.
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It may, thanks to Chekhov and Samuel
Beckett, be the great modern theme.
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The extraordinary last lines
of Waiting for Godot.;
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"Let's go."
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"Yes."
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"Let's go."
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Stage directions:
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"They do not move."
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The aura around Salinger's book -
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which, perhaps, should be
read by everyone but young men - is this.
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It mirrors like a fun-house mirror,
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and amplifies like a distorted speaker
one of the great tragedies of our times -
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the death of the imagination.
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Because what else is paralysis?
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The imagination has been
so debased that imagination...
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being imaginative, rather than
being the linchpin of our existence,
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now stands as a synonym for
something outside ourselves.
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Like science fiction.
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Or some new use for tangerine slices
on raw pork chops -
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"What an imaginative summer recipe."
And Star Wars - "so imaginative".
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And Star Trek - "so imaginative".
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And Lord of the Rings,
all those dwarves - "so imaginative".
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The imagination has moved out
of the realm of being our link,
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our most personal link, with our inner
lives and the world outside that world,
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this world we share.
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What is schizophrenia
but a horrifying state
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where what's in here
doesn't match what's out there?
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Why has imagination
become a synonym for style?
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I believe the imagination
is the passport that we create
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to help take us into the real world.
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I believe the imagination is merely another
phrase for what is most uniquely us.
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Jung says "The greatest sin
is to be unconscious."