tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post7289088734833865167..comments2024-03-27T07:14:36.800-04:00Comments on <b>Dawn Potter</b>: Dawn Potterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07500960150846895633noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post-80261432589820306372015-09-16T09:34:08.712-04:002015-09-16T09:34:08.712-04:00I haven't read that novel, but I've read a...I haven't read that novel, but I've read all of the Brontes' books many, many times, as well as various biographies of both Charlotte and Emily. You're right about the way in which they channeled nightmares into their creative work.Dawn Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07500960150846895633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6540771071400993487.post-22096353355732973272015-09-16T08:53:40.114-04:002015-09-16T08:53:40.114-04:00Interestingly, your nightmare sounds like it comes...Interestingly, your nightmare sounds like it comes from a book I've been reading, Becoming Jane Eyre (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/books/review/Benfey-t.html?_r=0). Charlotte Bronte's tortured images in her imagination, derived from a really complicated experience with her school master and compounded by her brother's dissolution, become the foundation for much of Rochester and of another, earlier, failed attempt at a novel (The Professor). I don't know if you've read this small novel, but it's really wonderful. <br /><br />That being said, those frightening dreams of being unable to function are the ones that truly do hang like a miasma that even black coffee cannot dispel. <br /><br />I hope you have a better day!Carlenenoreply@blogger.com