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(Jane had an excellent lunch. While she ate I told her several times that I had a feeling of anticipation, as though I had something I wanted to tell her, but couldn’t recall it. Only I hadn’t forgotten anything. At times the feeling was rather strong.
(We watched In Search Of from 2:30 to 3:00, and the program reminded me of a number of questions I’d thought of at various times. The program dealt with the atom-bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, and the after-effects, such as cancer. My questions had to do with the consciousness that must reside within, or make up, radiation, and why that type of consciousness was so virulent that we humans couldn’t tolerate it. Yet we’d created it, in ordinary terms. The same with a disease like cancer, I told Jane. Why did we create it when we couldn’t tolerate many forms of it?
(I went on to tell her of my idea that arthritis, for example, bridged all historical gaps and cultures, and that its origin — I think — lay in the individual’s reaction to fear of motion, for a multitude of reasons. Jane seemed a little surprised at this idea. I said I’d felt it to be true for some time, meaning years.
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Many people believe that birth, to the contrary, is a time of trauma, or even of rage, as the infant leaves its mother’s womb. Birth is life’s most precious natural process. Even in births that are thought of (underlined) as not “normal,” there is on the infant’s part a sense of discovery and joy.
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