"Everything you can imagine is real." - Pablo Picasso.
But there are patterns to the human imagination, and maybe in a thousand years or so, we'll know the true power of it. Or so I think when I re-read Tolkien. For me, it's not just how he sets up the rules and then operates within them, it's also how he also creates this whole notion that there are entire undiscovered corners of human history, and sustains it.
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~The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories. This is one of mine~
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