Thresholds of Ambiguity
Wynne-Jones refers to this as a pulse outside of oneself. “There is about Thresholds this ambiguity of
which way is in and which way is out.”
Hansel and Gretel
are left to find their way in the woods. Red
Riding Hood travels a familiar path but comes back from one visit
completely different, or is she? The wolf comes calling through the doors of
the Three Little Pigs.
“At the door of the house who will come knocking?
An open door, we enter
A closed door, a den
The world pulse beats outside my door.”
Pierre
Albert Birot
(As shared by Tim Wynne-Jones as another quote from
Bachelard’s book The Poetics of Space.)
The long running series Stargate
enfolds this aspect of ambiguity each time the characters step through the
pulsing gate to enter a wormhole. Even when they return to a familiar world,
life may have dramatically changed. Or at least the possibility always exists
making each entrance ambiguous.
Exercise:
1.
Wynne-Jones refers to this as an ongoing process
using the image of a life waiting to be born over and over again trying to get
it right.
What other images would fit into the concept of a repeated pulse as an
ongoing climb towards completion.
Share: What image
did you choose?
Probably because I write and love a romance, my mind went right to the first heart strings of love, that moment two people lock eyes. And the often rocky and winding path that can lead them through the portal of true love. Only to find that is only the beginning...
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