Hey Switch - yes - got your message and saw the board... was reading it yesterday just as it popped up, disappeared briefly for editing the intro and reappeared :) .... timing is just one of those things with me, I guess.
Interesting letter, though I have some of my own theories on the 'wife', not the least of which is just 'batty old hedger with icewater in her veins', but as to whether I believe the account is possible as a character of possession, yes.
I believe it, because I've heard similiar accounts and the condition of the person afterwards is about the same. This guy put it into words very well. Much better than some I've interviewed. Actually, once you see a few that will talk about this there are certain things about them that are identifiable. It seems to affect them physically and it's discernible. I'd never met this guy before the party and gravitated directly toward him.
Goes with the manuscript you've reposted, actually - and strange that you would post the letter you did along with the bits of your novelisation (or is it?).
I prefer to write comedic pieces and did not believe in aliens or possessions.
The novel is a true account of an encounter with something out of the range of the human experience. I met this woman while working with a rape crisis center. I felt sorry for her. I talked with her as a matter of course and tried to offer what comfort I could. Interviewing her changed my life.
Actually, it was the setting up of this board, that made me decide to repost that section of the novel. I left the first one up, to show the difference in posting techniques and how it affects being read.
I ask you this - in relation to these two concepts of possession and your earlier inquiries about sources of inspiration and such, do you feel these concepts are related.. that the 'muses' that pull the words and images from our brains to the pages and canvases are perhaps some form of mystic possession? I did the research. It wasn't a plot, I made up. I never felt anything pulled from my mind while writing, but I did feel help lining up the words I won't say 'evil', but 'mystic' since not all guidance from 'them' is bad if taken in that context.
I think it works like this. If you have the desire to write and are willing to work at it to perfect a technique, help comes. I think it has to do with state of mind and dedication to writing. I also think that a writer is tested, but won't go into that just yet.
Muses were once anthropomorphised ( wow - don't let me use big words before coffee like that) by the Greeks as well as Egyptians and some Asian lore (though more embodied by animals than people ... Shinto faith mostly). Along the lines of dragons existing in almost every culture though no one has seen one in a thousand years, who is to say that the Muses were not real people or beings since they pervade all cultures as well?
Jeen Lilly and I tore into it on the general board once about the meaning of muse. I was surprised, because she of all people should know that every single word written is writer's viewpoint. Simply because they were written about and a lineage described doesn't make it so. I have some very strong ideas about connection to personalities that inspire or might be considered a muse. One day the notion will strike me and I will write something, that only those who have experienced something similiar will comprehend. I'm sure you know, that there are somethings better left unsaid and somethings that defy description. (neither have ever stopped me.)
Where did they come from if they are not in human form, yet affect humans in the way they do? Why is one person inspired as a prodigy while another not until the last steps of his or her life? Why are some never inspired?
Consider "inspire" - taking in, breathing in or to breathe life into... how is this different from 'possession'?
I sorta think about it like talking on the phone, when I feel a muse. When I'm writing, I know that I've got help certain times and I know when I'm struggling to word it on my own. it's the same when I'm painting. I don't feel like anything stays.
A possession on the other hand seems to stay or only show up when it suits a purpose.
Music ia little different. Have you ever seen a live performer doing a popular song, that sorta looked like the original performer? If you read any of the sound check interviews, I tried to get the musicians to discuss it, but they are reluctant. Still researching that.
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