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The world comes into my room, kicks the silence about, smashes it to smithereens, builds little cobweb bridges so your thoughts can cross to Germany and Russia, to France.
Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr, Toronto/Vancouver, Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1966, p. 232.
PLACE: Beckley Street house, Victoria.
TIME: April 1, 1936.
CIRCUMSTANCE: Adjusting to her new radio.
How gloriously the children play, fluttering and squalling like seagulls over the rough, open ground in front!
Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr, Toronto/Vancouver, Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1966, p. 234.
PLACE: Beckley Street house, Victoria.
TIME: April 23, 1936.
CIRCUMSTANCE: Impressions upon moving into a new neighbourhood.
A robin is trying to whisper to his mate but jerky notes like his talk cannot whisper.
Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr, Toronto/Vancouver, Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1966, p. 239.
PLACE: Vancouver Island.
TIME: 11 am, June 4, 1936.
CIRCUMSTANCE: Impressions while camping.
The sun shouts, "Right about face," and every little dandelion looks him plumb in the eye.
Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr, Toronto/Vancouver, Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1966, p. 246.
PLACE: Vancouver Island;
TIME: June 27, 1936.
CIRCUMSTANCE: Impressions while camping.
The whole air seemed alive. It was as if the tongues of those great cold, hard metal things had become flesh and joy. They burst into being screaming with delight and the city vibrated. Some wordless thing they said touched something so deep inside you that they made tears come. Some of them were given in memory of dead people. That's a splendid living memorial, live voices speaking for the dead. If someone were to die and you were permitted either to see or hear them, I think it would be best to hear their voice. What a person says comes out of his heart; you have to use your own imagination to interpret his looks. People reacted far more to the bells than they would have to a picture.
Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr, Toronto/Vancouver, Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1966, p. 248 - 249.
PLACE: Victoria, B.C.
TIME: July 12 (written July 13), 1936.
CIRCUMSTANCE: Consecration of the Cathedral bells.
The woods are brim full of thoughts. You just sit and roll your eye and everywhere is a subject thought, something saying something. Trick is to adjust one's ear trumpet. Don't try to word it. Don't force it to come to you -- your way -- but try and adapt yourself its way. Let it lead you. Don't put a leash on it and drag it.
Emily Carr, Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr, Toronto/Vancouver, Clarke, Irwin and Company, 1966, p. 260.
PLACE: Vancouver Island.
TIME: September 8, 1936
CIRCUMSTANCE: Impressions while camping and sketching.
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