Reached for: Ship-In-A-Bottle
“I keep every feeling built small and sealed under glass, where nothing can get at it and it can't get out.”
It runs as exquisite control of the inner life, a fine, obsessive management of every emotional, unconscious and spiritual stirring, kept miniature and behind glass, because an overwhelmingly oppressive household made any loose expression dangerous. The control is masterful and it is also a cage for everything alive in the person. What it asks for is to let one feeling out of the bottle, full-size.
The Tin Woodman, sealed joint by joint in metal, moving with perfect careful precision and convinced he had no heart left to feel with. The form implies a task: to find the heart still ticking under the tin.
What is the "Reached for: Ship-In-A-Bottle" pattern?
It runs as exquisite control of the inner life, a fine, obsessive management of every emotional, unconscious and spiritual stirring, kept miniature and behind glass, because an overwhelmingly oppressive household made any loose expression dangerous. The control is masterful and it is also a cage for everything alive in the person. What it asks for is to let one feeling out of the bottle, full-size.
What does "Reached for: Ship-In-A-Bottle" sound like when it shows up?
I keep every feeling built small and sealed under glass, where nothing can get at it and it can't get out.
What is the archetypal form of "Reached for: Ship-In-A-Bottle"?
The Tin Woodman, sealed joint by joint in metal, moving with perfect careful precision and convinced he had no heart left to feel with. The form implies a task: to find the heart still ticking under the tin.
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