Results 61 to 80 of 300 for stemmed:doesn
[...] She doesn’t enjoy the protection a scientist does, who probes into a particular subject in depth, then makes a learned report on it from an “objective” position that’s safely outside the field of study. [...] She’s tough in ways that science, for instance, doesn’t understand at all.
[...] It’s interesting to ask how even extensive accepted credentials would help her respond to the extremes of feeling with which she and Seth are sometimes greeted: the outright rejection or the sheer adulation — or the threats she receives on occasion from those who say they’ll commit suicide if Seth doesn’t come through with a session for them immediately.
(My account of the dream doesn’t mention my actually coming to the surface of the water, but does deal with my holding my breath so that I will automatically rise to the surface; I had no doubt in the dream that I would do so. [...]
[...] Jane told me that Joseph, representing my own entity, smiled broadly at her in a way the painting actually doesn’t. The expression in the eyes changed first, the smile spreading from them down to the mouth. [...]
(Jane doesn’t particularly like the painting, and has never seen this change in it before.
[...] Not that she doesn’t have her failures, but her work has greatly improved since we met in 1954, and in ways that I hadn’t foreseen for her. [...] This doesn’t mean that I’m knocking my own abilities in any way. [...] When painting she knows a release from time, care, and responsibility that she doesn’t experience otherwise—and surely that pleasure emphasizes qualities of living that Seth has always stressed. [...]
[...] Seth doesn’t come from some separate, more exalted portion of Jane’s psyche that’s off limits to her when she’s writing her own books. As he’s often said himself, he isn’t omnipotent: Like Jane, he shrinks from being a guru—and I stress that Seth doesn’t hold that attitude just because Jane does. [...]
[...] “The poetry itself doesn’t need a final draft—just the essays.”
Jane doesn’t agree with my doubts. [...]
[...] I thought that was perfectly natural, but extending those feelings for the next 30 years would seem to be too much in nature’s scheme—as I’ve said before, it doesn’t seem to me that nature necessarily wants things to work that way, while making perfectly possible the fact that they can, if one chooses. [...]