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A Conversation With Fear
Part One,
“The Moment of Fear”
Chapter 1
“Meeting the Moment”
Page 1
Synopsis
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It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
The time has come to jump.
I must leave the slow-paced, easy busyness of the garden and walk through the door into my study and face the blank page.
A conversation with fear by mermer blakeslee
Suddenly, I want only to putter among my plants—pink against red, gray, shades of green, deep pine to iridescent—a sanctuary of beauty and memory and what is too deep and inchoate to articulate. But I turn away to sit at my desk.
The pivotal moment has come. I recognize it. I hate and love it. My body droops with fatigue, my hands shake as I look out from the edge of a cliff.
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I want the words to leap down onto the page. But do I dare push off? Like J. Alfred Prufrock, I brew myself one more cup of tea.
What is this moment that comes before every small or large leap? W