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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.

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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.”

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Grahame humorously shows childhood imagination turning ambiguous tracks into convincing evidence, illustrating how expectation can organize perception before the facts are settled.

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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.

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