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More visual thinking, from the Master:
May. 17th, 2010 02:44 am"The walker's thoughts and emotions were largely made up of these outside influences. Walking thoughts were half sky; if you could submit them to chemical analysis you would find that they had some grains of color in them, some gallons or quarts or pints of air attached to them. This at once made them airier, more impersonal" (the Great and Noble V. Woolf, "A Simple Melody" 206).
Her way of describing mental states using imagery from the surroundings (often garden imagery) is very right to me somehow. Only I cannot think in characters. Instead of writing stories around these perfect descriptions of vague mental states I want to catalogue them and make a theory around them. But my underlying wish is to include all the possibilities for ways of coming to know one's mental states, just as everything is in some way included in the mental states themselves. (This last thing is especially true the way she writes: a thought or emotion--especially an expansive one--immediately becomes about the way the world as a whole is disposed.)
Her way of describing mental states using imagery from the surroundings (often garden imagery) is very right to me somehow. Only I cannot think in characters. Instead of writing stories around these perfect descriptions of vague mental states I want to catalogue them and make a theory around them. But my underlying wish is to include all the possibilities for ways of coming to know one's mental states, just as everything is in some way included in the mental states themselves. (This last thing is especially true the way she writes: a thought or emotion--especially an expansive one--immediately becomes about the way the world as a whole is disposed.)
