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Have you ever imagined the world without... 11/11/2021 1:31:24 PM
Dear Readers, I invite you to read an excerpt from my blog dedicated to Bunky, the main protagonist of my novel "Bunky and the Walms: The Christmas Story". If you would like to learn more about Bunky and his thoughts, please visit us here to continue reading:
https://www.aleksandratryniecka.com/post/once-upon-a-time-in-walmland-196-pages-away-from-here-and-now
According to C.S. Lewis, "You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit [one]" and I could not agree more. Yet, if teacups were bottomless and books never-ending, the unique pleasure of refilling cups and opening new chapters would be out of reach... There is a certain kind of joy in finding a new flavour of tea or stumbling upon a new book. The longing for a never-ending book or a bottomless cup of tea might be tempting, yet both the book and the bottomless cup would certainly lose their appeal if they were displayed in front of one's eyes with no end in sight. In other words, reading involves an effort resulting in conscious joy and satisfaction. It involves a profound sense of imagination which technology - the bottomless cup of incessant gratification, cannot offer. If you cannot imagine the world without all sorts of technological devices, just think of the world without imagination - and what a dreadful blank space it would be. Not having the ability to imagine entails losing the self and any power of perceiving life as a coherent act of creativity. What saves imagination is not the technological cup of effortless gratification, but the old-time books. And Bunky knows it...
