Keats:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
Fled is that music: - Do I wake or sleep?
The following worries me, have not figured out why yet, it might be the first symptom is one that I am exhibiting :
"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you areliving. Then you read a book(Lady chatterleys lover, for instance), or you take atrip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover that you are not living,that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable:first, restlessness. The second symptom(when hibernating becomes dangerousand might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. Itappears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions livelike this(or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. Theydrive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And thensome shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakensthem and saves them from death." Winter, 1931-1932 from The Diary of AnaןsNin, Volume One 1931-1934
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
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