{Angelic Innocence}[16th August 1988]

[Redbook5:299-302][19880816:2045]{Angelic Innocence}[16th August 1988]

19880816.2045

A happy few hours spent with [W] and the children on the little beach to the West of the quay at Newquay – Newquay, Ceredigion, Dyfed,* that is – formed for me the thought – no doubt not original – that if one were to create perfection in human [sic] form – immortal and near divine, having therefore no need either to reproduce or to exert strenuous physical effort – one would create it in the form of a pre-pubescent girl, but of adult height. This – I think – logically unassailable statement might well account for the perceived forms of Angels, in most traditions, and in my own experience.** They are visions of beauty and grace – and innocence; and there were one or two Human near-embodiments of that ideal in Newquay today.*** (There were also several of the lumpen variety, poor things; but within a few years they will all look much the same.)

First Barrie,**** poor fool, and then Nabakov,# who is something rather worse, have spoiled us for the appreciation of unsexualised beauty in the Human form – but Artists should know all about it, and many did. I know that I offer hostages to the prurience of the Age in writing of my experiences:#* no doubt it would accuse me of repressed perversions, and point to my “overly religious”#** interests. The more I refused to accept this diagnosis, the more obviously repressed I should be seen to be. But I know it is not true, because not once in this latest chain of experiences has the faintest twinge of sexual feeling occurred.#***  But I am of course, well aware of the World I live in.

*[ie not Newquay, Cornwall; it seems, though, that the one referred to here is generally spelt New Quay]

**Nevertheless, the implication of [[Redbook5:291][19880815:0935h]{Undine (2)}[15th August 1988]ff, & esp [Redbook5:292][19880815:0935j]{Undine (2) [continued (3)]}[15th August 1988]] {291-292} above, and dreams, etc is that Archangels tend towards a slightly more developed Human form. In terms of outlook and function, I suspect, Angels may be more like Children, Archangels more like (young) adults. That is not to say the Angels are infantile, at all; but they are perhaps the more innocent, less concentrated or focussed of the two forms, and this may be reflected in their appearance to me. <880817>

***In particular, drifting along the margin of the Sea….

****[Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM; 9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. <Wikipedia>]

#[Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov; also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1899 – 2 July 1977) was a Russian novelist, poet, translator and entomologist. His first nine novels were in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose. Nabokov's Lolita (1955), his most noted novel in English, was ranked fourth in the list of the Modern Library 100 Best Novels…. <Wikipedia>]

#*[ie in these Journals – see previous Journal entries]

#**ref IV.[[Redbook4:235-236][19871219:0105]{Child-ish and Child-like}[19th December 1987], referring to a press cutting in the ms at p]237

#***[Possibly referring to the manifestations starting at [Redbook5:285-287][19880815:0040]{Undine (1)}[15th August 1988] <20190127>]]

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