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| Night Nursery at Talland House, 2003 |
If
life has a base that it stands upon, if it is a bowl that one fills and fills
and fills--then my bowl without a doubt stands upon this memory. It is of lying half asleep, half awake,
in bed in the nursery at St Ives. It is of hearing the waves breaking, one,
two, one, two, and sending a splash of water over the beach; and then breaking,
one, two, one, two, behind a yellow blind. It is of hearing the blind draw its
little acorn across the floor as the wind blew the blind out. It is of lying
and hearing this splash and seeing this light, and feeling, it is almost
impossible that I should be here; of feeling the purest ecstasy I can conceive.
“A
Sketch of the Past”
(MOB 64-5)
(MOB 64-5)
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