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Samuel R. Delany on Imagination

born 1942 United States

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Imagination should be used for something other than pondering murder, don’t you think?

Babel-17 (1966)

It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfections on to another person. One day the phantasmagoria vanishes, and with it love dies.

The Einstein Intersection (1967)

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