And, in fact, I used to write, I thought I was writing. I had an exercise book
and a pencil and I used to describe a wave, up and down, up and down, up and
down, in absolute ecstasy because I was writing. There seems to be, which as a
neurophysiologist is extremely interesting, connections between that part of the
cortex where writing as a physical act happens and words as a spoken act and the
cognisance of words, which of course is the parietal lobe.
I loved to read and it was so magical because it conjured up ideas on paper, I had
to write, I had to do it, I had to be in it.
... I suspect that I am only masquerading as a writer and a painter ... that really
what I am underneath is Michelangelo.
Colleen McCullough stated that she had suffered two rather serious
childhood illnesses both requiring isolation, the first at seven years of age when she
was placed in the I solation Hospital and Leprosarium in Sydney and the second at
ten years of age in North Queensland. She also said that, ... I wasn’t fat until I had
scarlet fever... but I was highly intelligent.
Q11. Ms. McCullough did not recall having vivid dreams as a child, except for one
which ... took place in a medieval castle filled with Tiffany-like lamps, and a second
dream ... in a forest and the trees were full of birds which were embroidered in the
most exquisite colours and threads.
Ms. McCullough said that she spent twenty-eight years living alone and ...
thoroughly enjoying every moment of it. I n spite of this she did not daydream
a lot ... because that sort of time wasn’t available to me ... so my world was full of
books, not of daydreams. I wasn’t fond of fairytales. McCullough also reported that
she attended a ... very highbrow Catholic girls’ school and that there were only
twenty-one students in her Leaving Certificate class. Again, almost in terms of a
contradiction, McCullough said that ... the only film that profoundly influenced me as
a child was Walt Disney’s Fantasia. She also said of herself in this section, ... I ’m a
wordsmith.
Ms. McCullough also said that as a child she had a very vivid imagination and
that ... whatever I read, I wrote a book about it – in the same style and genre – I
lived in that book.
Q12. The fact of having done it ... to have pulled it off.
Q13. I think that the depths of one’s unconscious are enormous and I think when
one writes one’s able to build a bridge to the unconscious and trot across it and
fetch back all these goodies that were buried.
ron
(Ron)
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