It’s hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It’s so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.
Perception plays a vital role in the diagnosis of bipolar illness. Symptoms are perceived through the categories of psychiatric medicine at a given moment in history, categories which are continually shifting and being named or renamed.
It’s not as if I’ve been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven’t lived through terrible literary suffering!
Every mental state is also physical.
I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.
The English expression ‘to fall asleep’ is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.
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