The concept of an inner versus outer world was one that I found to be very thought-provoking. The statement that not even "the sound of a thousand trumpets" could break us out of this inner world made me pose the question: in connecting with that part of your imagination, do you really lose touch with reality to that great of an extent? Or are we more in touch with the reality of ourselves through the depictions of the images that we dream?
After watching Stranger Things this weekend, the comparison of the inner and outer worlds reminded me of the upside down world, more in the sense that there is much more that exists than the reality we see, there is the 'world' we can imagine as well.
I found the method in which Italo Calvino writes his stories to be very interesting. He visualises and image, creates a sharpened idea of that image, starts to develop the image into a story, and the finally lets the story take off with the images. Later he goes back and gives an order to his story cleaning up what may have been jumbled in the creative process. After reading about his creative process it really made me sit back and think about how I generate an idea, or even what my decision process is like.
I both disagree and agree with the author. When it comes to the assumption that childhood without the access to larger technologies affects the development of a child's imagery. I think this statement is highly subjective and depends on the way children were raised. Regardless if the cinema or technology was around, not all children of that time period turned to drawing to strengthen their visibility of imagery. However, today with the surplus of I do feel as if technology has made a bigger impact due to the scale.
I very much agree with your statement on how it depends on the way a child was raised determines the effect of technology on a child's imagination. There are many people that were not raised with excessive amounts of technology and develop their imagination on their own.
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