Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Name generation

(Just some research and source material that went into the creation of my Protagonists name. As her power came from Imagination and the focus was on story worlds, I looked heavily at the two words for inspiration:)

http://translation.babylon.com/english/imagination/

Imagination Usually the making of mental pictures; but this is actually merely fancy; imagination is "one of the plastic powers of the higher Soul, the memory of preceding incarnations, which, however, disfigured by the lower Manas, yet rests always on a ground of truth" (TG 153). Imagination is therefore a creative power which, used in conjunction with will, calls forth not only creative forces, but likewise their productions. Thus it can be used for spiritualization and also for the materialization of images conceived in the mind; to bring about the results we desire, whether good or evil. It may become our master, chaining us to the illusions we have created; when, however, we can direct this power and resist its suggestions of fancy, it becomes a powerful instrument in shaping our lives and destiny.
http://www.inspirational-quotes.info/imagination.html

Fabula - Latin for play/story
fabula mirabilis - wonderful story

imagination\im*ag`i*na"tion\ (?), n. [oe. imaginacionum, f. imagination, fr. l. imaginatio. see imagine.]
1. the imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines. our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination. imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present, or as if they were present.
2. the representative power; the power to reconstruct or recombine the materials furnished by direct apprehension; the complex faculty usually termed the plastic or creative power; the fancy. the imagination of common language -- the productive imagination of philosophers -- is nothing but the representative process plus the process to which i would give the name of the "comparative." w. hamilton. the power of the mind to decompose its conceptions, and to recombine the elements of them at its pleasure, is called its faculty of imagination. taylor. the business of conception is to present us with an exact transcript of what we have felt or perceived. but we have moreover a power of modifying our conceptions, by combining the parts of different ones together, so as to form new wholes of our creation. i shall employ the word imagination to express this power.
3. the power to recombine the materials furnished by experience or memory, for the accomplishment of an elevated purpose; the power of conceiving and expressing the ideal. the lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact the poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name.
4. a mental image formed by the action of the imagination as a faculty; a conception; a notion.

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