When we wish to persuade ourselves of the reality of imagined worlds, of fantasies, or dreams, we thicken the imagining, persuading ourselves, as it were, by sheer weight of detail.

Donald S. Taylor, Thomas Chatterton’s Art: Experiments in Imagined History, p. 49 [PDF 60]

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