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A Tale of the 'Evans, v. 2, issue 2, Spring 1944
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page 6. WE-UNS ARGYGY. (AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is supposed to be humorous!!) We had the most luh-huvley argument during the recent of the San-Shackons. There was Ollie "The Door" Saari (by the way, he is indubitably the most egotistical guy I ever met-- he keeps saying "I'm Saari! I'm Saari! or maybe it is "I'm sorry!"); there was that perpetual dissenter of every opinion expressed by anyone other than himself, Alousyish Ashley; there was the calm, phlogmatic and St. Bernardish artist, Jack Wiedenbeck; and there was poor li'l me, sticking out that same ol' battered and hacked-upon neck. The subject was "Imagination". As usual, I had advanced an idea, and Ashley and Ollie jumped on me. Jack sometimes sided with me, as I made a point he though had merit, and sometimes with the other guys, at which times I was truly and literally squashed -- but always arose again as argumentative as ever. To give you a good picture of the whole thing (for I can't put all of a four-hour argument into a page or two of my 'zine) my conception of imagination is a "mental image of something that has not, does not, and probably never will exist in actuality". They accepted the definition. We got to the point where we had assumed "an hypothetical man who had all knowledge". The boys then claimed that his brain would either stagnate or atrophy because it could not have any more usage, unless the man turned to introspective sensuality. I held that if the man had an active imagination he could still use his mind in the pleasant formation of imaginative ideas and fancies. I based this upon the fact that we can use our imagination to picture, very vividly, logically and lucidly, things that are not or probably never will be AS FAR AS WE KNOW. I made the assertion, and you can well believe they jumped on it heavily, without, however, in any way changing my mind about the truth of it, that it any given man at any given instant, the sum total of what he know it "to him" ALL KNOWLEDGE. Yet he can, by the use of his imagination, the two or more unrelated facts and weave from them a mental image of something that is not a fact, then or ever. I cited the Dawn-man, who, as Ollie had brought out, could see a mile, and know that he could walk there; who could see a distant mountain, and know that he could reach that if he desired, and that he could also see the stars, but knew he could not reach them. From this picture of Ollie's, I brought out that this man, as he grew in wisdom and knowledge, learned to tame and ride horses. He also saw the birds in flight. From these points of factual data, he IMAGINED a winged horse which he could ride to the top of the distant mountain -- and the myth of Pegasus was born -- a thing which had no basis in fact, past, present or future AS FAR AS THE IMAGINER KNEW. In extrapolation I then stated that the man with all knowledge could as well extrapolate known data to give a mental image of something that was not fact -- that was pure imagination. They argued that, having all knowledge, he could not do so, and
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page 6. WE-UNS ARGYGY. (AUTHOR'S NOTE: This is supposed to be humorous!!) We had the most luh-huvley argument during the recent of the San-Shackons. There was Ollie "The Door" Saari (by the way, he is indubitably the most egotistical guy I ever met-- he keeps saying "I'm Saari! I'm Saari! or maybe it is "I'm sorry!"); there was that perpetual dissenter of every opinion expressed by anyone other than himself, Alousyish Ashley; there was the calm, phlogmatic and St. Bernardish artist, Jack Wiedenbeck; and there was poor li'l me, sticking out that same ol' battered and hacked-upon neck. The subject was "Imagination". As usual, I had advanced an idea, and Ashley and Ollie jumped on me. Jack sometimes sided with me, as I made a point he though had merit, and sometimes with the other guys, at which times I was truly and literally squashed -- but always arose again as argumentative as ever. To give you a good picture of the whole thing (for I can't put all of a four-hour argument into a page or two of my 'zine) my conception of imagination is a "mental image of something that has not, does not, and probably never will exist in actuality". They accepted the definition. We got to the point where we had assumed "an hypothetical man who had all knowledge". The boys then claimed that his brain would either stagnate or atrophy because it could not have any more usage, unless the man turned to introspective sensuality. I held that if the man had an active imagination he could still use his mind in the pleasant formation of imaginative ideas and fancies. I based this upon the fact that we can use our imagination to picture, very vividly, logically and lucidly, things that are not or probably never will be AS FAR AS WE KNOW. I made the assertion, and you can well believe they jumped on it heavily, without, however, in any way changing my mind about the truth of it, that it any given man at any given instant, the sum total of what he know it "to him" ALL KNOWLEDGE. Yet he can, by the use of his imagination, the two or more unrelated facts and weave from them a mental image of something that is not a fact, then or ever. I cited the Dawn-man, who, as Ollie had brought out, could see a mile, and know that he could walk there; who could see a distant mountain, and know that he could reach that if he desired, and that he could also see the stars, but knew he could not reach them. From this picture of Ollie's, I brought out that this man, as he grew in wisdom and knowledge, learned to tame and ride horses. He also saw the birds in flight. From these points of factual data, he IMAGINED a winged horse which he could ride to the top of the distant mountain -- and the myth of Pegasus was born -- a thing which had no basis in fact, past, present or future AS FAR AS THE IMAGINER KNEW. In extrapolation I then stated that the man with all knowledge could as well extrapolate known data to give a mental image of something that was not fact -- that was pure imagination. They argued that, having all knowledge, he could not do so, and
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