Chapter 3.VI: drawers, chests and wardrobes
The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, transl. Maria Jolas
Gentle closing calls for gentle opening, and we should want life always to be well oiled.
Chapter 3.VI: drawers, chests and wardrobes The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, transl. Maria Jolas It is not merely a matter of keeping a possession well guarded. The lock doesn't exist that could resist absolute violence, and all locks are an invitation to thieves. A lock is a psychological threshold.
Chapter 3.V: drawers, chests and wardrobes The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, transl. Maria Jolas In the wardrobe there exists a center of order that protects the entire house against uncurbed disorder. Here order reigns, or rather, this is the reign of order.
Chapter 3.IV: drawers, chests and wardrobes The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, transl. Maria Jolas These rapid remarks are intended to show that a metaphor should be no more than an accident of expression, and that it is dangerous to make a thought of it. A metaphor is a false image, since it does not possess the direct virtue of an image formed in spoken revery.
Chapter 3.III: drawers, chests and wardrobes The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard, transl. Maria Jolas And when we sense a metaphor in advance there can be no question of imagination.
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