![]() ![]() Does Bennett do this in spite of what she says? And what does it mean to ‘not make sense of things’ anyway? In other words, a writer will delve into the darkness of his/her mind, and try to make sense of it through the work that they produce. ![]() ![]() Psychologically then, the author’s act of sublimation implies the transformation of often negative unconscious experience into positive form. Carl Jung saw writing as a way of finding meaning, a search for unity between what we live on the outside, and what we are on the inside. Fiction aims for something like reality but better weary of platitudes it reaches for the moon. Traditionally, literature likes to compensate for the shortfalls of real life with a more subliminal experience. When you engage in such pursuits by wading into Bennett’s Pond, you’re likely to fall flat on your face and drown in three inches of water. People, and readers in particular, have a nasty habit of seeking purpose and trying to make sense of things. There are those who will love it for the way it streams off on its own tangent, taking objects and situations to pieces, wryly examining them through the warped lens of solitary living and then discarding them as though they were not important in the first place – but there may also be others who will hate it for that. ![]() Bennett herself said in an interview with The Irish Times that she wrote Pond not to ‘make sense of things – the opposite in fact, to keep rationality and purpose at bay’. ![]()
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