Confined in the dark, narrow cage of our own making that we take for the whole universe, very few of us imagine another dimension of mind. There once was an old frog who lived all his life in a dank well. One day, a frog from the sea fell into his world.
“Where did you come from?” asked the frog in the well.
“From the great ocean,” the visiting frog said.
“How large is your ocean?”
“It’s gigantic.”
“A quarter of the size of my well here?” the old frog asked.
“Larger.”
“Larger? You mean half as large?”
“Even larger.”
“As large as my world?”
“There’s no comparison,” the visiting frog said.
“That’s impossible! I’ve got to see this for myself.”
The two frogs set off together. When the old frog from the well saw the ocean, it was such a shock that his head just exploded into pieces.
Moral: be willing to drop into your reader’s life and in some way “blow” your reader’s mind, to enlarge his or her world in some way. You might even enlarge yours along the way.
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