Mid-afternoon. You spent time online and on the iPad as well as doing chores, a nap, and helping Carol take care of Owen. You reduced Merlyn’s event down to a vertical visual form which reminds you of the prototypical feminine Jung archetype.
The feminine reminds me of Delphi in Greece, a crevice, a birthplace, where the Greeks felt they could communicated directly with Apollo and the other gods. I do not know if Merlyn would have thought of the Greek Delphi or not, but I imagine he might have. The form also reminds me of a strange sword with the handle at the top, but it has a short end blade or a longer blade with two crosses one on top of the other.
Show it in form here:
***
I, Merlyn, exist.
Still
Within
Silence
Non-Begotten
...B-E---I-N-G…
Non-Begotten
Silence
Within
Still
I, Merlyn, do not exist.
Yet, Here I Am, Thinks Merlyn
and echoes
Yet, Here I Am, Thinks Merlyn
and echoes
Yet, Here I Am, Thinks Merlyn
Heart and Echo
an
Soul
an
Mind
At Once Shredded
and
At Once Re-stitched
Again
and
Again
and
Again
***
I immediately think of the English metaphysical poets, John Donne and others. Some wrote their poems in circular forms or in the form of a church steeple or cross, a diversion from the usual at the time. As far as Merlyn goes, Excalibur comes to mind, and Merlyn kept the protective magic in the sheath not the sword, for Arthur’s protection as Arthur was not the best man wheedling a sword and might drop it or have it knocked from his hand. This has nothing to do with scene four I am sure, but for me it is an interesting aside of doubtful consequence.
Why did you change your original wording, orndorff? “It is an interesting aside, no doubt of little consequence.”
I didn’t like the ‘no doubt’ because that is seemingly arrogant. I don’t know what the consequence, if any, would be. Two days ago you defined ‘spiritual magic’ as: spiritual meaning: “incorporeal sacred phenomena” and, for ‘magic’ the contextual meaning is “seemingly supernatural enchantment.” Even in fiction I want to remain respectful of the concept of G---D. As a human being I feel Jung was on to something; that we create archetypical symbols unconsciously. And, as you Amorella, are from a part of my unconsciousness I want to keep a respectful distance even in imaginative thought. It is a moral line I need to follow for my own sense of personal dignity and well-being. This is who I am, this is how I think. The mind can be a very small place or a very large one. I feel the need to remain diligent so I am free to write what I honestly think and feel.
You are being a bit overly dramatic don’t you think. – Amorella.
Nothing new in that, Amorella. Not the best of traits I’m sure, but I do lean that way. Too much self-centeredness, too many existential elements. I have to be comfortable with myself, and I would think Merlyn’s character would feel the same.
A saving grace in the last sentence, orndorff.
I know all this is about the books, Amorella.
Why did you just write Merlyn rather than Amorella in the previous sentence?
A Freudian slip, I suppose. Who knows. Maybe I was just thinking about Merlyn. These are just wordy thoughts, Amorella. I erased Merlyn and replaced it with your name. They are just notes. I need to leave this business and work on this next scene with Thales and Mario.
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