a vast and vividly populated world beyond the possible

In his book, On the Origin of Stories, author Brian Boyd explains that:

"....fiction trains us to reflect freely beyond the immediate and to revolve things in our minds within a vast and vividly populated world beyond the possible."

Life Imitates Art, in three sentences

A Mutual Respect is a really great blog I've been following for quite some time, and I loved the entry that this comes from:

"While I was in New Orleans feeling like I’d been somehow robbed, someone somehow robbed me. Rented a car, bought some Ray Bans, drove to Vegas, got a bunch of fifty dollar subscriptions to bottom-shelf skin sites. Up through the part about roadtrip I was half-checking my pockets for wayward chips - I’d been romanticizing those Pueblo-style McMansions just a week before, brown turf on the front lawn and road bikes in the garage."

But it almost gave me an idea. It seems like a writer could nicely elide the concept into a susurrus of reality mapping, as in:

"While I was in New Orleans feeling like I’d been somehow robbed--like someone had taken my plastic, rented a car, bought some Ray Bans, drove to Vegas, got a bunch of fifty dollar subscriptions to bottom-shelf skin sites--someone robbed me. Up through the part about roadtrip I was half-checking my pockets for wayward chips - I’d been romanticizing those Pueblo-style McMansions just a week before, brown turf on the front lawn and road bikes in the garage."

Bio 101

I have bio 101 every tues/thurs at 10. It's a 3 hour lab, and boring as all guzzunk, but at least the t.a. has this in mind. Every now and then he'll start drawing sperm on the board just to get our attention.