Notes on Thought and Vision
Written on Scilly in 1919 after a near-fatal pregnancy, this short prose meditation proposes a jellyfish-like over-mind through which vision arrives. Unclassifiable, and unlike anything else.
Written in 1919 on the Scilly Isles after a near-fatal pregnancy, H.D.’s short prose meditation proposes an over-mind, a jellyfish-like state of consciousness through which vision arrives. Unclassifiable, and unlike anything else in modernism. She describes it as a cap of tentacles over the head, drawing thought in from outside, and treats the experience as reportage rather than metaphor.
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Couple H.D.’s Notes on Thought and Vision with Georgia O’Keeffe on the art of seeing and Iris Murdoch — whose over-mind was deeply kindred to H.D.’s — on how to see more clearly and love more purely
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