Creators and audiences congregate ad hoc in meandering conversations, a common space of shared imagination and interests.

ECONOMIST: Blogging is just another word for having conversations

If this is the sort of story that ignites your imagination, why not look into a space-based report.

BBC: Story ideas for 2011 News Day

One might think that a man who dreams of opening up space to the holidaymaking public would have had his imagination fired as a boy by science fiction novels.

BBC: The Moon

Apollo's successor, the Space Shuttle program, failed to capture America's imagination, or attention, except in 1986, when Challenger blew up, killing seven, and in 2003, when Columbia disintegrated on reentry, killing another seven.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The imagination of scientists has enabled us to travel through outer space and walk on the moon, feats that were once only possible in the realm of myth.

NPR: Karen Armstrong: Myths and the Modern World

Listeners will need to employ a bit of imagination to match Johannsson's composition to the title "Melodia (Guidelines for a Space Propulsion Device Based on Heim's Quantum Theory), " but it's hard to deny the propulsion at work here.

NPR: Johann Johannsson: Ambience In Action

One of them was on display when I visited the Storyscapes space, which was still very much under construction Tuesday evening, at the seventh-floor Bombay Sapphire House of Imagination on 121 Varick St.

WSJ: Storytelling's 'Now'

But when a well-run company builds a well-designed new house, then uses it with taste and imagination, the plays that you see there will be all the more satisfying for being enacted in a space that sets them off in the way that a first-class frame enhances a first-rate painting.

WSJ: Skylight | Heroes | Richard III | American Players Theatre | Passionate Acting, Impeccable Setting | Theater Review by Terry Teachout