So …. as we say in Hiberno… \u00a0from my question yesterday about whether a reading of a particularly particular prose might produce the same flickering as Gysin’s invented Dream Machine I had an incidental experience.<\/p>\n
The evening unwound with a three hour reading of Sandor Ferenczi’s Clinical Diary — luvly bit of light Sat night reading (!). \u00a0Rather than requested entranced flickering I found myself thrust into a more potent variety. I read the word matricide early on and it induced the feeling of being repeatedly dropped off the back off a moving train and from then on, whilst it was certainly deeply engaging and entrancing, it was consistently like bouncing along an iron railroad on a bungee cord.<\/p>\n
Rather than the flicker of light through a tree, it was a full faced open-mouthed wolf snarling between the trees.<\/p>\n
And it reminded me never to wish for any such thing again from prose. \u00a0Such an experience might be better sought in a vat of gin! It’s why we have psychedelic drugs!<\/p>\n
But on a last note: it’s Beckett’s How it is? that was the text that didn’t come to mind when I was trying to think of them yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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