¶ Pretending
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There’s nothing wrong with pretending; in fact we have to pretend. Pretending is just the same thing as our imagination. We have to formulate something like ‘going down town’ before we can actually go down town. Even Christopher Robin with Alice. It’s really not a matter of pretence but more of a trial balance. It’s not a pretence: you might just not have had time to do it yet.
You write the play; Then you act the play. You have to write it first. It’s like the lag between the navigating and the conceptioning. You can’t just go… except off the deep end, and even a child knows better than that!
(N.B: Above comments in response to EJA showing RBF a quote from Wittgenstein (Philosophic Investigations: II, xi - 229e: “A child has much to learn before it can pretend.”)
¶ Citations
- RBF to EJA, 3200 Idaho, Wash., DC, 8 Apr’75
