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[Front Porch Republic] It may be that we must learn to conform our desires to reality, as Lewis said, but that does not mean that we are incapable of conjuring a reality to which we then willingly”and fatally”conform. “Perception,” said Emerson, “is not whimsical, but fatal.” If I maintain, as I do, that the imagination is constitutive, I do not therefore deny that desires, imperfectly ordered, flatter and congratulate the imagination for the world it has put on offer.
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