"The great archetypes of the mind, pure ideas, find themselves usurped by a mere sense, images. Yet we cannot live our daily lives in a realm of pure ideas, cocooned from sense-experience. The question is not, how can we keep the imagination pure, protected from the onslaughts of reality? The question has to be, can we find a way for the two to co-exist?"
--- extract from the novel Disgrace, by J.M. Coetzee
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