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“Imagination and a fixed idea will do a great deal, and we were sure we knew the direction a dragon would naturally take.”
- Source
- Dream Days
- Date
- 1898
Meaning of “Imagination and a fixed idea will do a…”
Grahame humorously shows childhood imagination turning ambiguous tracks into convincing evidence, illustrating how expectation can organize perception before the facts are settled.
Where does it come from?
Dream Days, “The Reluctant Dragon,” Project Gutenberg #270. The child narrator and Charlotte are following uncertain tracks in snow and imagining a dragon; the sentence is playful literary narration about imagination and fixed expectations.