Opposite Contraries by Emily Carr & Emily Carr

Author:Emily Carr & Emily Carr [Crean, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIO001000
Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
Published: 2003-11-20T16:00:00+00:00

A TABERNACLE IN THE WOOD

1935

SEPTEMBER, 1935

[…] Sketching in the big woods is wonderful. [. . .] There are themes everywhere, something sublime, something ridiculous, or joyous, or calm, or mysterious. Tender youthfulness laughing at gnarled oldness. Moss and ferns, and leaves and twigs, light and air, depth and colour chattering, dancing a mad joy-dance, but only apparently tied up in stillness and silence. You must be still in order to hear and see. It is you that must be still to hear and see. It is you must go underground to smell those live and perfect smells. It is you must be still so they can come and make merry in your stillness.

Pout and Carabana bred today. This mating business is very marvellous. Two creatures agreeing together, fiercely determined to carry on life to perpetuate the species. It is a godlike, beautiful, sacred thing, and we have lowered it to the ground, coarsened it and made it shameful almost. Mrs. M. has the most irritating repertoire of dog and cat stories. Sentimental, mawkish, shoving the beast up with a human concept of life and mussing up all the blind, sweet animal instinct that is so refreshing in the beasts with a foolish half human. All evening she poured this [drivel] into my ear and rammed poor photos of animals into my eye which was already full of sleep. I longed to stamp and shout “shut up,” and she so kind to me in so many ways. I vowed secretly never to tell a cat or dog story to anyone the rest of my life. I wonder if I have ever bored folks that way about my creatures. The animals are so far above silly sentiment, it robs them of their dignity. [. . .]

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