“Can imagination act
Perpendicular to fact?
Can it be a kite that flies
Till the Earth, umbrella-wise,
Folds and drops away from sight?”

—  Philip José Farmer

"Imagination" in America Sings (1949); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)

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American science fiction writer 1918–2009

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