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automatic writing
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automatic writing,
a method of composition that tries to dispense with conscious control or mental censorship, transcribing immediately the promptings of the unconscious mind. Some writers in the early days of
Surrealism
attempted it, notably André Breton and ...
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THE WRITE WAY TO ANSWER ALL YOUR PROBLEMS.(Features)
The People (London, England);
November 23, 1997 ;
459 words
......Eason admits she was totally against automatic writing when she started her current job...to solve her bad marriage through automatic writing, said Cassandra, 49. Mum eventually...It's no surprise that I thought automatic writing was something connected with the...
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GHOST WRITER; Yeats 'went into trances with demons'.(News)
Sunday Mirror (London, England);
March 18, 2007 ;
393 words
......using the weird phenomenon known as automatic writing , he allowed ghosts to write his...occult. He was very interested in automatic writing and got his images and symbols from...and his wife Georgie kept up the automatic writing for seven or eight years. She eventually...
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Ghosts who put lead in Yeat's pencil
The Scotsman;
June 5, 1999 ;
700+ words
......trance where she started producing automatic writing. The first message that came through...But she had to go on turning out automatic writing to keep her husband satisfied. Over...Yeats said the spirits said. When the automatic writing petered out, George started talking...
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From child stars to indie rockers
Jerusalem Post;
February 1, 2005 ;
572 words
......versatility is its strong point. ATAXIA Automatic Writing (Hed Arzi) For someone whose band...six months, Frusciante brings us Automatic Writing. "Ataxia" is the moniker for Frusciante...Klinghoffer and Fugazi bassist Joe Lally. Automatic Writing may only feature five songs, but...
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Japanese Inventors Develop Microcomputer with Flush Memory
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;
January 22, 2007 ;
247 words
......work of temporarily interrupting automatic writing or automatic erase and accepting...an interruption occurs during the automatic writing or automatic erase by using an interrupt...an external input for controlling automatic writing or automatic erase of a flash memory...
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Books: Lonely side of a genius
The Scotsman;
September 27, 2003 ;
700+ words
......into trances and producing automatic writing for her husband's pleasure...used the excitements of the automatic writing sessions to cure her husband...George's trances and once the automatic writing stopped the couple's sex
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planchette
The Oxford American College Dictionary;
46 words
......n. a small board supported on casters, typically heart-shaped and fitted with a vertical pencil, used for automatic writing and in seances. ORIGIN: mid 19th cent. : from French, literally ‘small plank,’ diminutive of...
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Stop making sense
The Village Voice;
April 17, 2001 ;
700+ words
......unsound. A look at the history of automatic writing (that is, after all, what this kind...name for his technique; the term "automatic writing" was coined in the 1850s, to describe...mediums and others during seances. Automatic writing and its cousin "direct writing...
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BIOGRAPHY Poetry in emotions
The Scotsman;
December 4, 1999 ;
430 words
......Yeat's wife started falling into trances and producing automatic writing which her husband then used in his poems. Maddox makes...given the secrets of the universe, his partner used the automatic writing sessions to get her own way. The two Yeats children were...
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aleatory
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms;
59 words
......tri] or aleatoric, dependent upon chance. Aleatory writing involves an element of randomness either in composition, as in automatic writing and the cut‐up , or in the reader's selection and ordering of written fragments, as in B. S. Johnson's novel The...
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Is There a Psycholinguist in the House?
NPR All Things Considered;
July 29, 1994 ;
419 words
......recover. I bought an English newspaper and practiced some automatic writing on the cafe napkin, but the British paper further alienated...some continental, rooted in the European Atlantic. And my automatic writing turned up in Latin syntax. I had experienced something...
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Constantin Luser
Artforum;
December 1, 2006 ;
482 words
......control that guide him: His panopticon lies in the system of "automatic writing." Inspired by Freud's theory of the unconscious, the Surrealists...this method to uncover hidden images and feelings. Luser's automatic writing, in contrast, is based on neither a metaphysical belief...
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ATAXIA Automatic Writing (Record Collection)
The Press;
October 16, 2004 ;
120 words
...ATAXIA Automatic Writing (Record Collection) * * * In which John Frusciante (Red Hot Chilli Peppers) indulges his professed love of underground kings Fugazi...
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Dear John and Bonnie; PERSONAL HELP AND HEALING; EVERY WEEK FAITH HEALER...
Sunday Mirror (London, England);
November 23, 1997 ;
700+ words
......daughter, aged 29, in 1972. After reading a book about automatic writing I stupidly decided to try it. After a time, messages came...these things if you do not know what you are doing. Using automatic writing or an ouija board opens a door to another dimension and...
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Teaching kids to overcome the fear of writing
Daily Breeze;
June 18, 2005 ;
700+ words
......writer to go back and shape a great piece. It's called automatic writing. For example, using that Himalayan music as his inspiration...them. To ease the kids' fears, I tell them how important automatic writing will be. They'll have 10 minutes to write their essay...
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