A sufficiently strong imagination is requisite for the possession of any valuable knowledge.

Meditation of a Friend of the Storm

      The sky darkens above, portending the approach of some gorgon phenomenon:  the dark full-breasted clouds charged with weight, filled with a waterfall and with spears of electric light, partnered to winds which blow like aggravated gods:  cold on the face.  All the people of the bright, blue sun-shining afternoon, the happy afternoon revelers,  are [...]