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From the Unpublished Novel Young Murph

And do you know what’s really great about the imagination? I said. No, tell me, Dr. Watson. What’s really great about the imagination? Cait said, not even bothering to stifle a giggle of amused superiority. Well, I’m going to tell you, Holmes, you bitch. She laughed. The thing about the imagination is no one knows where it is located. No neuroscientist has the slightest idea where the imagination lives in the human brain. Mrs. Dwyer has this book about the brain, the areas of life it controls. Moving your limbs. Singing. Learning. Seeing. Hearing. All those functions, and more. Even loving. Every one of our activities has a home in some particular area of the brain. Not the imagination. The scientists concede the imagination is real, but they haven’t found out where it lives. Most of them say it lives everywhere, in all the brain’s regions. You know what I say? No, Watson, what do you say? She hadn’t stopped smiling. I say the imagination is bigger than the human brain. It fills the universe. I say the imagination imagines itself.