The Journals of Mary Butts by Butts Mary Blondel Nathalie

Author:Butts, Mary,Blondel, Nathalie.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2002-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

1927

11 January 1927

The marvellous consciousness of [Cecil’s] presence, that came & went & seems coming back. Today’s script [automatic writing] that he was my ally, for ever.

[mid-January 1927]

Health very much improved, & lots of what seem like ‘signatures’ about. A book—[M. R. James'*] Five Jars [(1922), Ford’s] Ladies Whose Bright Eyes [(1911)] leading up to yesterday’s script…

Goodness only knows how much of this is subtle self-suggestion. But I feel what I can only call love round me, a sense of an evil time, a separation over, of an active, tender creative force I have only to rest myself in & do well…. & I have not an idea what has done it, if it is not Cecil joyfully repairing the harm he did. And I must have tapped some source of psychic life.

Script: The practice seems to be that at the start one’s hand is ‘taken,’ & the words come out clear. Then some force weakens, & you feel as if you know what is to be written & must attend to the pen. If you don’t, it falls away into scribblings, generally an illegible repeat. Then the force weakens again & you get things slowly, less decisive, signatures, repetitions, scrawls. Till you stop. It is very tiring.

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