Waking Dreams
Watkins, Mary M. Waking Dreams. Harper Colophon Books, 1977 (1st Harper Colophon Ed.). Softbound. Intro by Stanley Krippner. 'We have skillfully tried to strain the mythical from the scientific, the imaginary from the real, metaphor from matter,' Watkins laments in the first pages of this psychological exploration of the mythopoetic and imaginal. 'We have used science to tell us just what "reality" really is and we have taken our scissors of reason and accordingly trimmed into the waste basket the apparently superfluous and contradictory.' Designer Margo Herr brings her own scissorwork to the collage gracing the book's cover, albeit working on behalf of intuition rather than scientism, juxtaposing fairy-tale etchings and Platonic solids against a background of celestial sand dunes.
