...the house shelters daydreaming, the house proetects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. Thought and experience are not the only things that sanction human values. The values that belong to daydreaming mark humanity in its depths. Daydreaming even has a privilege of autovalorization. It derives direct pleasure from its own being. Therefore, the places in which we have experienced daydreaming reconstitute themselves in a new daydream, and it is because our memories of former dwelling-places are relived as daydreams that these dwelling-places of the past remain in us for all time.
--Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, page 6
that daydreams can be embodied...that they can wrap around you like a familiar home and that this home is always with you....that's what i like about this passage.
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At times I think that I daydream TOO much. Lots of self-reflection here. Thanks for sharing that passage. The autovalorization VALIDATES, to me, the old addage that it doesn't cost a dime to dream and in our dreams, we are all that we want to be and people, places and things that make us happy...fleeting as it may be.
THANK you for stopping by O-man! I have recalibrated my blog where I will discuss political issues that bring us closer together, as opposed to pushing us apart.
Hope you are good!! OMG your post gave me such a warm fuzzy.
xoxo
Angelo
aka Anj
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