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"Shaken, not stirred."
hey, i've managed to pull off text 7 - the town where time stands still - in essays before. i'll throw up the basis of my ideas behind it relating to an imaginary journey, and if anyone could, or already has, could you tell me how to improve it or anything to add on? if this has already been threaded before, i'm sorry.
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Another text that deals with the idea if achieving a “greater understanding” through the imaginative journey is The Town Where Time Stands Still, Shirley Geok-lin Lim.
The brief extract deals with the idea if travel and the concept of peoples emotions evoking an external and internal journey and change. The short piece explores the change that can occur internally when the external surroundings are different and explains the motivations that drive people to take on a journey “profit or pleasure”. Written in 3rd person the objective piece takes on a very impersonal tone. The lack of emotion is reflected in the formal language used and words such as “humans” show a sense of detachment and elevation on Geok-lin Lims behalf. The Town Where Time Stands Still embraces that fact that humans like to be internally changed and like to evoke emotions not only through a physical journey but through a speculative journey as well visualising and dreaming of where and when travelling can take them – the endless possibilities “Humans hope to be moved rather then to move”. Geok-lin Lim comments that through imagination and dreaming that humans can be anywhere they want, experiencing anything they want. Through the imaginative journey a person can gain positive growth and alterations to not only discover “external geography” but something that will act on their “internal psychology”.
The extract also notes human’s sense of association. The sense of want of familiarity as referred to in the “genii loci” as an “unconscious compulsion”. The desire or humans to undergo the imaginary journey to speculate about a connection to time and place “which has nothing to do with a vacation” so that they can “return” to reality “blessed and altered”. The extract therefore suggest that the imagination of travel gives humans a “greater understanding” of self and the real world. It highlights and supports the idea that an imaginary journey can have a lasting and dramatic effect on the human without ever been put into action.
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Another text that deals with the idea if achieving a “greater understanding” through the imaginative journey is The Town Where Time Stands Still, Shirley Geok-lin Lim.
The brief extract deals with the idea if travel and the concept of peoples emotions evoking an external and internal journey and change. The short piece explores the change that can occur internally when the external surroundings are different and explains the motivations that drive people to take on a journey “profit or pleasure”. Written in 3rd person the objective piece takes on a very impersonal tone. The lack of emotion is reflected in the formal language used and words such as “humans” show a sense of detachment and elevation on Geok-lin Lims behalf. The Town Where Time Stands Still embraces that fact that humans like to be internally changed and like to evoke emotions not only through a physical journey but through a speculative journey as well visualising and dreaming of where and when travelling can take them – the endless possibilities “Humans hope to be moved rather then to move”. Geok-lin Lim comments that through imagination and dreaming that humans can be anywhere they want, experiencing anything they want. Through the imaginative journey a person can gain positive growth and alterations to not only discover “external geography” but something that will act on their “internal psychology”.
The extract also notes human’s sense of association. The sense of want of familiarity as referred to in the “genii loci” as an “unconscious compulsion”. The desire or humans to undergo the imaginary journey to speculate about a connection to time and place “which has nothing to do with a vacation” so that they can “return” to reality “blessed and altered”. The extract therefore suggest that the imagination of travel gives humans a “greater understanding” of self and the real world. It highlights and supports the idea that an imaginary journey can have a lasting and dramatic effect on the human without ever been put into action.
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