…Just as the child puffing along the street is imagining himself a steam
engine or a horse sometimes it seems mixing them into some mythological
monster, with a horse's mane behind its funnel and a tail hanging from a
coal bunker so the man for whom the child is the playful father is always
imagining himself to be something he is not-such as a bird, Napoleon, a
gentleman, a fish, or an adding machine. The principal thing that
discriminates men from the other animals is that they desire to escape
from themselves.
''The Politics of Artsitic Expression'', 1924
just like.. just like.. the abuse of imagination for self-hypnotic slumber
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