Imagination remains active in the world despite being fragile and fallible.

Evidence

Imagination is not to be scorned. Fragile, fallible, it goes on working in the world. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 941

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines imagination as a working, world-facing faculty rather than mere fantasy — paired with her treating the vision as ‘some species of truth, light as metaphor.’
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 941
• XREF: connects to: Romantics challenged mechanical worldview by celebrating imagination — Richard A. Posner, What Has Pragmatism to Offer Law?, 23; History invents phantasms — fantasies attached to Muslim bodies — that remain powerful; Creative work holds more life than its forms can contain — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 853

Broader Connections

• Creative work holds more life than its forms can contain #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 853
• History invents phantasms — fantasies attached to Muslim bodies — that remain powerful #exemplifies (0.68)