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The Secret Commonwealth, Philip Pullman – his dark precursor to the work on the imagination
You won't understand anything about the imagination until you realise that it's not about making things up, it's about perception.
– p. 163
You won't understand anything about the imagination until you realise that it's not about making things up, it&