Posted by zeugma on January 23, 2004, at 21:08:59
In reply to Re: (was meant for naiad), posted by Joslynn on January 23, 2004, at 10:32:05
Unfortunately, i also have felt that when my mood is at its worst, I am more able to write, because my inner experience seems to become more urgent as the outer world becomes lost in dysphoria. i'm more apt, when feeling awful, to be kept awake by despair and to start having the associative thought process of dreaming while awake. William butler yeats talks about a story Flaubert planned but never wrote, in which a man's dream life becomes increasingly rich and satisfying as his waking life falls apart; his final ruin in 'real' life corresponds to his marriage to a beautiful princess in a dream. I take this to be an apt metaphor for the creative life.
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