β Scribed by Hilda Doolittle
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The connections and interconnections of past and presentββthe realization that life is a whole continuously echoing back to the past and unfolding toward the futureββwere sources of the strength, renewal, and joy celebrated in H.D.'s Trilogy and, in a differing, but no less real way, in The Giftββher novelistic memoir of childhood. In recapturing her memories of being a very little girl in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and later on a country place outside Philadelphia, H.D. "let the story tell itself or the child tell it." It is this voice or child's-eye view that lends The Gift its special charm as H.D. recreates the ordinary and extraordinary occasions of her early youth, the nightmares and delights. A road-company presentation of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Christmas Eve with its particular family ritual, a family outing, a disturbing accidentββthe happenings and incidents, perceptions and misconceptions with which a child's life is crowded...
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