Hierarchy Index Cards - F
Card-F-06-01: Field: Experiment in Leisure
DEH: “My own fascination — ‘jewels’, rocks, fossils, journey to the centre of the Earth—Jules Verne. All this is discovery of a layer of oneself….
Card-F-06-2 She [Field] also talks about fascination of arrow heads, Stonehenge etc. Ancient places generally. (DEH: Me in Tower of London, Norwich Cathedral, etc. Butterflies, and so forth.)
Card-F-06-3—6 Newspaper article on Field’s book.
Card-F-06-09 and following, Joanna Field and not knowing etc. DH: Giving up PLANS
Card-F-06-10 DEH: In trouble, don’t be cheerful. Go right down to the centre.
Card-F-06-11 reading Joanna Field. DH: Desire to suffer is one of sons of gods — good, to be accepted. Even cruel & poisoning & destroying forces usable & necessary if one doesn’t fight; acceptance of violent power
(DH: MY “red” drawings in Calcutta. I could give some as illustrations to Mabel.)
Card-F-06-12
Joanna Field. Bull fight represents fully-satisfying religious ceremony.
DH: Thunder over Mexico was so for me [film 1933]… inevitability: tragedy known from the start & accepted (myself in Calcutta — exhilaration in ‘condemned city’!) Spanish intuition: fears must be faced, not hidden away. When one accepts the pain and horror, it stops.
Card-F-06-15
DH: 1. Arms & legs: always another that you see. You cannot see yourself. 2. So you are not good, or clever, or beautiful, only others are: ideas, people, works. This is an epistemological fact, not a moral one.
Then it is your receptiveness that matters. Strain is no good.
Index Card F-06
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