In his book, “Imagined Worlds”, Freeman Dyson makes a comment I think is relevant to this series.
“In discussions of human affairs, I turn for guidance not to sociology but to case studies and science fiction. For me, Wells’s “The Time Machine” provides more insight into past and future worlds than any statistical analysis, because insight requires imagination.”
I was searching for a meaning for enchanted today and found an interesting connection. A greeting in French is “enchanté” or “pleased to meet you” seems to me to carry a more interesting meaning than the phrases,”How are you? Fine thanks, how are you?”
In, “The Pleasure of Finding Things Out,” Richard Feynman observes that knowing more about a visually pleasing thing, like a flower, can increase the item’s aesthetic to you. An artist in this discussion thought the scientific view of the flower was less beautiful; Feynman disagrees.
It is sometimes difficult to express what has triggered a particular set of thoughts. For me the above describes how we can say or view the world from many different perspectives. Often, stories heard are quite different from the story that has been told. That isn’t always a bad thing.