Can You Picture That Dept.

I've mentioned before about how when we talk aboutimagination, we're not just talking about the ability to make things up — worldbuilding, or what-if scenarios, or what have you. Imagination is also about being able to see more of what's actually there than others might, to not approach the material in question wearing blinders. Nobody ever really knows all the ways they do not see things (I think now of James Tiptree, Jr.'s story"The Women Men Don't See"), and so when they have their blind s...