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Reveries on Reverie/Reveries toward Childhood
Childhood sees the World illustrated, the World with its original colors, its true colors. The great once-upon-a-time (autrefois) which we relive by dreaming in our memories of childhood is precisely the world of the first time.
For those of us who can only work on written documents, on documents which are produced by a will to 'edit,' a certain indecision cannot be obliterated in the conclusions which terminate our inquiries. In point of fact, who writes? The animus or the anima?
These seasons find the means to be singular while remaining universal. They circle in the sky of Childhood and mark each childhood with indelible signs. Thus our great memories lodge within the zodiac of memory, of a cosmic memory which does not need the precisions of the social memory in order to be psychologically faithful. It is the very memory of our belonging to the world, to a world commanded by the dominating sun.
Gaston Bachelard
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