The willing suspension of disbelief

[Carol]

Carol earlier:
> Since several posters on the main list are discussing the willing
suspension of disbelief <snip>, I thought I'd bring up the original
context of the phrase from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Biographia
Literaria." 

Carol again:

Sorry. Forgot to post the link on the off chance that anyone wants to
explore Coleridge's theory of the Imagination a little farther:

http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/biographia.html

Carol, who thinks that Coleridge was a greater genius than Wordsworth,
opium addiction or no