NPPF Zembla & the Criminal Imagination (Anatomy Of Shadencholy)

[s~Z]

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There was a sudden sunburst in my head.
And then black night. That blackness was sublime.
I felt distributed through space and time:
One foot upon a mountaintop, one hand
Under the pebbles of a panting strand,
One ear in Italy, one eye in Spain,
In caves, my blood, and in the stars, my brain.
There were dull throbs in my Triassic; green
Optical spots in Upper Pleistocene,
An icy shiver down my Age of Stone,
And all tomorrows in my funnybone.

AL & CS

"[I]t is the past and the present and the future (your book) that come
together in a sudden flash; that time ceases to exist. It is a combined
sensation of having the whole universe entering you and of yourself wholly
dissolving in the universe surrounding you. It is the prison wall of the ego
suddenly crumbling away with the nonego rushing in from the outside to save
the prisoner--who is already dancing in the open."

"But in one way or another the process may still be reduced to the most
natural form of creative thrill--a sudden live image constructed in a flash
out of dissimilar units which are apprehended all at once in a stellar
explosion of the mind."