Comments on: Imagination https://www.jameswhall.com/imagination/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=imagination A Master of Suspense Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:43:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: JWH https://www.jameswhall.com/imagination/#comment-128 Fri, 28 Jul 2017 16:43:16 +0000 http://jameswhall.com/?p=586#comment-128 In reply to PJ Parrish.

Thanks for telling me about this, Kristy. I’ve heard about this book for a long time. Moving it to the top of the list.

]]> By: PJ Parrish https://www.jameswhall.com/imagination/#comment-127 Thu, 27 Jul 2017 19:24:38 +0000 http://jameswhall.com/?p=586#comment-127 What happens when the power goes out is only one of the themes in Emily St. John Mandel’s splendid book “Station Eleven.” I loved this book but not just because I like apocalypic novels. The story is about a motley band of pandemic survivors who wander the wilds putting on Shakespeare’s plays. The troupe’s motto is from “Star Trek” — “Survival is insufficient. ” So the novel about what happens when the power goes out is really about the power of art and imagination. Not just surviving but living. It’s also about hope. It ends with a character who has lived only in post-pandemic darkness viewing the far-off lights of a town coming back to life. Great blog, Jim.

]]> By: JWH https://www.jameswhall.com/imagination/#comment-126 Thu, 27 Jul 2017 16:56:05 +0000 http://jameswhall.com/?p=586#comment-126 In reply to Neil Crabtree.

What happens when the power goes out? I’m afraid one day soon we’re going to find out.

]]> By: Neil Crabtree https://www.jameswhall.com/imagination/#comment-125 Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:04:08 +0000 http://jameswhall.com/?p=586#comment-125 Building model cars and airplanes was such a wonderful way to concentrate on the here and now. The Matrix doesn’t allow much of that anymore. Staring at glowing rectangles in quiet desperation, waiting for a digital response from someone who is never there, Lordy.
We are the last generation connected to the crap our teachers were talking about. Kids today are connected electronically to the here and now, while making it look like we were simply attached to the dead and gone. But what happens when the power goes out?

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