Geoffrey Fletcher on Imagination

"If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all." - Geoffrey Fletcher

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July 29, 2014

“If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.” – Geoffrey Fletcher

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