‘The Cruelty Towards Others Like Ourselves… is Difficult to Imagine Here as You Turn to Swim Your Twentieth Length.’ Swimming and Dreaming of Elsewhere with John Berger

J. Croft
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Swimming, like reading, is an immersive activity: words wash away, and words arise. Engaging with writings by critics who are also swimmers, principally John Berger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this article explores their writings about swimming in relation to how being in water can ‘conjure stories from the water’, and open up particular kinds of reflection and reverie. The fluidity of water spaces creates an imaginary that enables intellectually sensuous dreaming, while the ebb and flow of movements and identifications establish a poetics of swimming as a form of life writing.
“对像我们这样的人的残忍……很难想象在这里,当你游到第20个长度时。”约翰·伯杰的《游泳与梦想别处
游泳和阅读一样,是一种沉浸式的活动:单词被洗去,单词又出现。这篇文章结合了游泳评论家的作品,主要是约翰·伯杰和莫里斯·梅洛-庞蒂,探讨了他们关于游泳的作品与在水中如何“从水中变出故事”的关系,并开辟了特殊的反思和幻想。水空间的流动性创造了一种想象,使理智的感官梦想成为可能,而运动和识别的潮起潮落建立了一种诗意的游泳作为一种生活写作形式。
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