![]() ![]() (Available as a print, as a face mask, and as stationery cards.)īecause we are always partly opaque to ourselves even at our most self-aware, fiction and real life have something wonderful in common, wonderful and disorienting: the ability to surprise even the author - of the story or the life.īoth are a form of walking through the half-mapped territory of being, real or imagined, making the path in the act of walking and so revising the map with each step. Art from Thomas Wright’s 1750 treatise An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe, depicting the Solar System as it was then understood. ![]() ![]() In its creative manifestation, we call it art - the novel, the story, the poem, the song are each a model, an imagistic impression of the world not as it is but as the maker pictures it to be, inviting us to step into this imaginary world in order to better understand the real, including ourselves. In its clinical manifestation, we call this tendency delusion. ![]() This might be the most transcendent capacity of consciousness, and the most terrifying: that in the world of the mind, we can construct models of the real world built upon theories of exquisite internal consistency that those theories can have zero external validity when tested against reality and that we rarely get to test them, or wish to test them. ![]()
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