http://www.blog.poet.me.uk/paul-auster-travels-in-the-scriptorium/ UK Poet Ivor Griffiths. Modern Poetry, Essays, Creative Writing Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:02:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.blog.poet.me.uk/paul-auster-travels-in-the-scriptorium/#comment-397 Glenn Robinson Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:22:50 +0000 http://www.blog.poet.me.uk/paul-auster-travels-in-the-scriptorium.htm#comment-397 Yes, I would agree with the above comments. Another aspect of this work that I would also like to highlight is the use of ‘imaginative reasoning’. It appears in other works of Auster, perhaps most successfully in Oracle Night. The creative ability to fill in the gaps…, not just in the processes of reading and writing but also in everyday life is extremely important. Auster seems to recognise that this has limited results however. Imaginative reasoning is not an epistemology but rather a more functional and useful ability that does not claim absolute knowledge or a God’s eye view. Such an ability is underdetermined and always open to revison but as such has an ethical component to it. It is more forgiving and empathatic and at moments sublime.

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