Description
Handwritten fragments of conversation with a dreamer, probably dating from 1922.
"Not a suicide but almost": on the back of this page there is a fragment of a conversation with a dreamer, which once again reveals the omnipresence of the theme of death - the importance of which could be attributed to its place in the unconscious, but also to the connotations of this type of experience, close to spiritualism and clairvoyance. On the front of the sheet, a few lines seem to constitute a poem, probably written during a ‘sleeping fit’ - the jolting prosody of the third line and, above all, the final adjective, in the manner of Apollinaire, rule out any hypothesis that these are verses composed in full consciousness...
What remains is the development of an inner rhyme that clearly draws the text towards poetry: "Lover of marine goddesses / shall I bring my love to the lace-maker / of Mechelen who sneers but is so affectionate".
First period of hypnotic sleeping fits
2 pages in-4° and in-8° handwritten.
"Lover of the marine goddesses, shall I bring my love to the lace-maker of Mechelen who sneers but is so affectionate."
