![]() ![]() ![]() So much time and effort has been spent throughout the millennia creating different kinds of walls to facilitate daily life: the large, strong walls for public spaces and places of worship, the smaller walls for houses, the still smaller walls for rooms, the even smaller walls of dressers and jewelry boxes and perfume bottles. Because we crave intimacy, and intimacy is dependent on privacy. We search constantly for containers, whether for our most precious belongings or our most sacred thoughts. Doors and hinges and keys and corners and locks, indeed we are “human beings, great dreamers of locks” (95). The human experience is made up of walls, both physical and conceptual big walls, tiny walls, walls to keep things in, to keep things out, to keep things safe, to keep things private. ![]() In it, he writes about writing and he writes about walls. I’ve been gently navigating my way through Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space for a time now. ![]()
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