Simply Pretending

Still mulling over the power of imitation. I suppose this is something I've always 'known', in some sense, but my re-reading of Ian McGilchrist's The Master and his Emissary has intensified my awareness of the link between imitation and creativity: Imitation is imaginatively entering into the world of the one that is imitated... Yes, that nails it. The sentence goes on to reference the deliberate imitation of a writer's style, but I find myself thinking of the strange way in which acting feels intensely creative even though on one simple level it's just pretending to be someone else.