The imagination is a safe place where the dead can appear

Evidence

The creative imagination is a place of safety for the dead, where they can show their faces and be recognized. We have to conjure the people of the past, summon them back to life, so they can lead us to our future. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1016

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 1016
• XREF: connects to: Imagined encounters with death generate the deepest life in fiction — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 103; Imagination grants access to a place the writer has never visited — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 988; The presence of a deceased loved one can feel real during mourning. — Hamlin Garland Munseys, A Daughter of the Middle Border, 1059 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The presence of a deceased loved one can feel real during mourning. #exemplifies (0.70) — Hamlin Garland Munseys, A Daughter of the Middle Border, 1059
• Grief can possess a mourner’s dreams and invade waking compulsions #expands (0.55) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 2550
• Serene images are often constructed by writers in states of considerable fear #expands (0.40) — Jamal Awil, The Whispering Archive, 1630