Transcending Modern-Day Idolatry in Owen Barfield’s Fairy-Tale The Silver Trumpet
Without imagination images are dead. Imagination is their lifeblood. Their substance. Their content.
In his 1925 fairy tale The Silver Trumpet, Owen Barfield expressed mythically what he would later expound philosophically in Saving the Appearances: A Study in Idolatry:
The life of the image should be none other than the life of imagination.
In other words, without imagination images are dead. Imagination is their lifeblood. Their substance. Their conten…
