“[For] we have the Power of retaining, altering and compounding those Images, which we have once received, into all the varieties of Picture and Vision that are most agreeable to the Imagination; for by this Faculty a Man in a Dungeon is capable of entertaining himself with Scenes and Lanskips more beautiful than any that can be found in the whole Compass of Nature.”

—Joseph Addison, On The Pleasures of Imagination, Spectator 411, 1712.