T his weekend, the question of what, precisely, constitutes an "imagination" came up in an online forum of which I am a part. To be fair, the issue originates from further afield in a Facebook group that I am not a member of, but I weighed in with my own view. The following was in response to the question posed yesterday (Sunday) morning by an exasperated member of my own rather more gentlemanly town square, who had been met with a strident response to information he shared about his (admirable) hobby activities on said FB group. Here is, more or less, what I wrote: To my mind, the concept of imagi-nation(s) is a broad one. It can range from historical refights or what-if scenarios/battles/campaigns between armies of a particular era, to completely made up combatants operating in a quasi-historical setting, to the rather generic red and blue forces of the Prussian Kriegspiel that examine a particular tactical problem, task, or exercise. ...
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Best Regards,
Stokes Schwartz
And also how frustrating it can be when an editor who knows less than you do "corrects" something that was correct and turns it into something incorrect. (Sorry about that, but I've had it happen too many times). I hope that she managed to avoid that.
I salute her, as I'm sure all of us do. I hope that you constantly let her know how much you appreciate her.
-- Jeff