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[[strikethrough]] SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 1936 [[/strikethrough]] 114th Day 152 Days to come cont. taxi speeding head on at me. I [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] furiously & indignantly glared at him (how dared he go down a one way [[strikethrough]] street the wrong way [[/strikethrough]] against me) till he became terrified & backed out as fast as possible into another car. I glanced at the street & lo & behold it was I who had come down a one way street the wrong way - so I fled the scene of gathering policemen & terrified taxi man! I want to write an [[strikethrough]] arti [[/strikethrough]] essay on that elusive word imagination - starting with "What is imagination? If this were not an age of psychoanalysis I might well describe it as 'such stuff as dreams are made on' - & continue about the mind having to keep fed & busy, so that children who as yet have no facts & knowledge to go by, resort to imagination, & later on to Romance, which consists of the [[strikethrough]] new [[/strikethrough]] lure of the unknown egged on by imagination, whereas grown people replace all this with knowledge - or should do. I might [[strikethrough]] SUNDAY, AUGUST 2, 1936 [[/strikethrough]] 215th Day 8th Sunday after Trinity 151 Days to come cont say that certain people "speak one's language", & others don't. [[strikethrough]] This is [[/strikethrough]] These two types differ mainly in that the first type has had as a child & probably will always have to some extent a 'world of his own" consisting of imaginative dreams & longings & theories. One feels immediately whether a new acquaintance has a world of his own if one's self has [[strikethrough]] also [[/strikethrough]] too, & these private worlds touch each other & recognize each other one feels one has found a new friend - & a sympathetic one with mystery & personality - all as a result of his [[strikethrough]] way []/strikethrough]] & one's own imagination. The other practical unimaginative type of person is & always will be a stranger. Psychologists [[strikethrough]] would [[/strikethrough]] might say that the first [[strikethrough]] ty [[/strikethrough]] imaginative type is abnormal - & therefore sympathetic to other abnormal people with thwarted & distorted emotions which should be [[strikethrough]] ana [[/strikethrough]] psychologically analysed & cured. This is probably so true that I refrain
