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How to Recapture Your Imagination
"If you had the spyglass, you could see anything in the world. If you had the
spyglass, there was nothing from which you couldn't glean information. It had
mesmeric power over the people. It had been created by a king who gave it to his
daughter, to be used for the strangest of courtships. If you wished to marry
her, you had to achieve only one thing. You had to disappear. You had to become
a magician of the invisible." In this excerpt from his new book, Martin Shaw, a
celebrated storyteller, draws on myth and metaphor to direct our gaze away from
the screen and toward the wonder of the world.
