Neville recounts a letter he had read two weeks earlier in the New York Times Magazine's Sunday edition (published 26 October), written by George Mylonas, a Greek writer held under house arrest on the island of Amorgos by the ruling military junta. Mylonas described imagining his escape in vivid daily detail -- picturing the village, the villagers' routines the morning after -- until, after 409 days of captivity, his imagined scene came to pass in fact. Neville offers the story as living proof that imaginal activity, not physical scheming, is what changes circumstance.