Subject: Re: Lor' luvaduck
From: Cecilia Baader (ceciliabaader@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 11:51:33 GMT
'You could, of course, be up to your old tricks again . . .'
Up to my old tricks? I like that, you old fox.
Trickster indeed. Next thing I know, you're going to start
accusing me of some dark agenda simply because I'm formatting
my messages nicely, just for you.
'I couldn't say it was my own personal experience where
everything has to be sweatily hewn out of memory.'
Certainly, though I wouldn't discount memory entirely.
Even things which emerge entirely from the imagination
have some backing in experience or knowledge. It's the
application of them, the pulling them out of the air and
making them concrete which seems so odd to me. It feels
as if I'm making the necessary connections outside of me,
and I don't even know that I'm doing it until I put it on
paper. If I really thought about it, I could trace the whys
and wherefores down to experience, but it feels as if some
other part of my consciousness is making the connection.
So yes, your 'paraconscious' is exactly the term I'd give it.
'I appreciate it isn't quite the same as the magic realists - but
is there a kinship?'
Yes, of course. Lately, I've been reading a great number of
Native American myths and legends: stories of creation,
the animal trickster, the antelope wife. It seems to me that
these are meta-stories with universal application and universal
symbols that we can all understand because we share the experience.
Of course, this observation is not new. Jung and Campbell
made it long before me.
In my mind, the magic realists are the only ones who do this today.
It's no surprise that these are usually Native or Latin American
authors, authors who are already familiar with this method of
storytelling: Marquez, Erdrich, Alexie to name but a few.
So yes, I built upon that tradition while trying to make a way
of my own. And I still don't know where half of it came from.
Regards,
Cecilia.
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