Subject: Re: Lor' luvaduck
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 03:33:33 GMT
'... I don't know that I had this one in me.
Sometimes it feels like it comes from someplace else ...'
I'm not unintrigued by this.
You could, of course, be up to your old tricks again
in suggesting your creative process is the same as that
of the great giants (was it Beethoven?) who described
themselves as mere channels for the Eternal, taking down
dictation from the mouth of God. (I wouldn't put it
past you. Only the other day you were invoking the
Almighty in your definition of art. However.)
I'll be charitable, though, & assume the 'bird' vignettes
that punctuate the story - what I would call paraconscious
(not quite dream, not quite fantasy, not quite reality) -
indicate a source in your own unconscious which has left
you with the feeling of having to handle something alien
- even if inexplicably familiar.
OK?
I couldn't say it was my own personal experience where
everything has to be sweatily hewn out of memory. But
it seems to be the way quite a number of writers do work.
I appreciate it isn't quite the same as the magic realists - but
is there a kinship?
Scottie B.
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