Now this fugue postulate is corroborated by what the poet himself observed vis-a-vis the wasteland that was his first marriage: "To her the marriage brought no happiness, to me it brought the state of mind out of which came The Waste Land." It correlates "the man who suffers and the mind which creates." TWL as ground, indeed, absolutely! CR |
And yet I must compliment Peter Montgomery for this wonderful insight -- a state of fugue in which the 'unconscious' is free to cull up fragments from its stock of memories and put them in an order that suits it best. When the poet recovers from that state he
makes what he can of what the 'unconscious' has expressed. CR No, it does not leave to the reader to make whatever he/she would make of it. There are enough signposts. Of course, by 'madness' I meant whatever form it takes. CR
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