Happy new year, Rebecca,
dementia is an important part of the writing process.
Had we not be all demented, we would be business people.
As for the word dementia itself, I have a great respect for both what it
defines and what it implies. Because we are not talking - at least not in
my case - of vascular dementia - we have to believe to the Latin root
suggesting that the verb ‘dementare’ is to go "out of one's mind" ; but
then we must ask ourselves what is this owning of one's mind. How do we go
in or out of it? There are states of permanent dementia, and how do we
distinguish them from other normalities. So we speak of changing or moving
State of Mind. Is any change of mental state , the moving out of one's
mind , a demential dynamic? The sway of the mind remains powerful in any
case. It goes without saying that certain authors have been profoundly
demented.
In France Mallarmé was unquestionably one of them. He was the first to show
his dementia to the public. For him, for us all, it is dementia which
speaks out of his pages.
erminia
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