18 / 17 Imagine a place …
Words allow us to create
images, to construct an
environment that never really
existed. We can “see” in our
mind’s eye, a city we know
nothing about, whether it’s a
bustling square full of blank
faces or a cold, anonymous
place that seems almost
uninhabited.
Those syllables imagine places
that are not real – perhaps they
will be in the future, perhaps
they never could be. Words
can corral our other senses
into submission, conjuring up
towering skyscrapers made
of thin air, winding streets
consisting of empty atoms,
parks and meadows filled with
nothing more than the flimsy
fancy of fiction.
