Laura Along Makki. “Long and empty minutes are the condition of creating a project without project”

“I stopped imagining a day, I don’t know why or why I know what I want imagination. At least a thousand times has not been spoiled A small praise of imagination (1). In this work, the teacher in the Poetry Poet describes this idea by writers by writers who all believed this faculty to fight reality. Interviewer:

Madame Figaro: Why should we continue to imagine?
Laura El Makki.- Because it is essential. We tend to think that imagining us is far from life that we must be a reality, not to run away. In this book I support the opposite idea. We do not doubt how much imagination it is to say, which we have to do images can bring us closer to reality. First of all, imagine that they create an incredible area of ​​freedom, because we can play ourselves with the impossible. In addition to the pleasure of “making movies”, as we say, it leads us to creatively, but also to think about the future. No appearance, inventions or progress. And then it is enough to look at the side of literature, to realize that many authors and ideas are often planned to be what we feel 1984who expected control of control or Mary Shelle wrote about the dangers of genetic change Frankensteintwo centuries ago. On the other hand, this faculty can also help us return the past. Marcel Proust describes better than anyone who imagines the superpowers of the imagination in Madlena’s good-mobile episode. Tasting this piece of cake in the spoon of the spoon, the narrator reactiviates the distant memory, a part of him who thought he had lost his sensations forever. This episode is magical and, in some way, very ordinary. We have all felt these indefinite moments that remind us of how rich we are from our domestic life.

You say you stopped imagining when it’s your “Favorite Activity”. Why are adults to use the imagination in the struggle?
This faculty of children is always marked as a quality. But the more we grow, the more we encourage us to return this activity. Because you have to do your place in the world, separate yourself from our illusions, make your life. After that, the real thing is caught on its networks, and it’s time to make it only to do what is reduced to several suspension moments. Some dreams of which we do our imagination work. And then, the history of reality, the way we analyze and comment on what happened to us, it takes such a place that it is difficult to separate it. The images that reach us are constantly preventing the production of our own images. Closing your eyes is difficult for this continuous flow, as well as reading a book (and making your work) instead of looking at the screen (and pass the images we offer). It requires effort, but the good news is that it can become a wonderful habit.

Can you provide advice to promote our imagination? Imagining the imagination, it should be applied every day, for example, sports and yourself. Decorating screens is a good start. And if not, here’s three tips.

A little Agree to bore : This, of course, is the hardest problem for all the assets we are. But long and empty minutes are the condition of creating a project without project. Let’s follow the BRONTë sisters pattern that started writing because they had nothing better to do. Or about Mariam Shelly who wrote Frankenstein Because the storm behaved inside and that it was necessary to take time.

A little Develop it dream Is :: Donate for a few minutes a day to dream about the open eyes, like Robert Dessnos or closed without sure. Consider what you are going through your head. When are you separated from real or your experience? What images arise? Which would you follow? For what? This is the beginning of history.

– to be amazed British Artist and Poet William Blake (1757-1827) defended what our hardware does not see anymore, such as the sky, his movement, the ways that last. Considering usual other eyes ordinary, we feel our senses, we take the path of imagination.

(1) a small praise of imaginationLaura Along Makki, Ed. Les végrines., 200 pages, 14 euros.