My bat-like thought-wings would beat painfully in that sudden searchlight, H.
D.
Time double backs on itself, mingling past, present, and future in a visionary weave of dream, memory, and reflections..
Revealed here in the poet\'s crystal shard-like words and in Freud\'s own letters (which comprise an appendix) is a remarkably tender and human portrait of the legendary Doctor in the twilight of his life.
The first part of the book, Writing on the Wall, was composed some ten years after H.
D.\'s stay in Vienna; the second part, Advent, is a journal she kept during her analysis.
Having endured World War I, she was now gathering her resources to face the cataclysm she knew was approaching. underwent therapy with Freud during 1933-34, as the streets of Vienna were littered with tokens dropped like confetti on the city stating Hitler gives work, Hitler gives bread.
Compelled by historical as well as personal crises, H.
D. writes in Tribute to Freud , her moving memoir.
My bat-like thought-wings would beat painfully in that sudden searchlight, H.
D
