Adam Curtis Blog: ALL WATCHED OVER BY MACHINES OF LOVING GRACE. Bewilderment by Fanny Howe. Bewilderment by Fanny Howe What I have been thinking about, lately, is bewilderment as a way of entering the day as much as the work. Bewilderment as a poetics and an ethics. I have learned about this state of mind from the characters in my fiction--women and children, and even the occasional man, who rushed backwards and forwards within an irreconcilable set of imperatives. What sent them running was a double bind established in childhood, or a sudden confrontation with evil in the world--that is, in themselves--when they were older, yet unprepared. Within the book they were unable to handle the complexities of the world, or the shock of making a difference. Increasingly my stories joined my poems in their methods of sequencing and counting. A signal does not necessarily mean that you want to be located or described.
Weakness, fluidity, concealment, and solitude find their usual place in the dream world, where the sleeping witness finally feels safe enough to lie down in mystery. Alain de Botton, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Alain de botton, the architecture of happiness, the consolations of philosophy, how proust can change your life, essays in love, philosophy a guide to happiness, The School of Life. Caryl Phillips, author and playwright | Official Web Site | Home.
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