I used to retain a vivid and unmistakable memory of lying in bed as an infant in a dark, warm room and hearing the ominous and mysterious double booms - first low-pitched, then even lower - of a nearby fog horn.īut I was born in inland Michigan, nowhere near the ocean!Īs a teenager I used to think “I CAN’T have just dreamed that up!” I used to remember it when listening to Beethoven, for some strange reason. suddenly the mists of time and faulty memory withdraw, and it all comes back to you!Įvery nook and cranny, every secret, mystical corner, each minute detail of your home and of the enthralled childhood you once enjoyed would flood your heart with a forgotten, Elysial joy. You know - the one you lived in as an infant.Įureka. I used to retain a vivid and unmistakable memory of lying in bed as an infant in a dark, warm room and heari Imagine you're magically transported back to your first home. suddenly the mists of time and faulty memory withdraw, and it all comes back to you! Every nook and cranny, every secret, mystical corner, each minute detail of your home and of the enthralled childhood you once enjoyed would flood your heart with a forgotten, Elysial joy. You know - the one you lived in as an infant. Imagine you're magically transported back to your first home. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard.' -from the new foreword by John R. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. The Poetics of Space is a prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced-and enchanted-significances. Bachelard takes us on a journey, from cellar to attic, to show how our perceptions of houses and other shelters shape our thoughts, memories, and dreams. The Poetics of Space is a pr Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space remains one of the most appealing and lyrical explorations of home. Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Space remains one of the most appealing and lyrical explorations of home.

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