Finnegan wrote:
> I'm not certain one shouldn't suspect (mistrust) the
poems
>one "hears inside" oneself as much as the poems
>one "invents willfully."
Douglas wrote:
> >but Alison didn't actually say she was listening to
> what she 'heard inside
> >herself' (& in putting those marks up I guess I
> creatively misquote too).
> >but instead said she was '*listening* to something
Alison wrote:
> Thanks, Douglas, for the comments - though the quote
> wasn't from me, but
> from Kona!
>
> But it's true, sometimes the writing takes charge.
> Not inspiration,
> altogether too blank and maybe in a way banal for
> that: just that when
> something is really working, what turns up is wholly
> unexpected. A
> collaboration with one's selves, maybe???
I think that's a good way of looking at it. That
faint and subtle thing one is listening to might be a
voice one "hears inside" oneself, but in the same
rather indirect way that the dreaming self is a voice
one hears inside oneself - something oblique, hard to
catch, sometimes baffling, something that often feels
quite "other".
As far as trusting goes, I trust that "voice" (or
whatever it is) *utterly*. For me it has proved to be
a kind of sonar: I find that if my life / my self is
going in the wrong direction in some fundamental way,
then it disappears. If I can't hear it, it means I'm
going the wrong way. Sometimes it takes me a long
time to work out quite how I'm going wrong, but the
sonar is always right. It's the defiant thread of
authenticity that can be suppressed but not destroyed.
OH, btw Alison, the Alan Garner book is called "The
Voice That Thunders". Let me know what you think of
it!
Cheers,
Kona.
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