VISUAL IMAGERY

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 163, 25 June 1934, Page 11

VISUAL IMAGERY

ANOTHER LETTER. Sill] another Setter on this subject comes from 41 thinking Hard.” a gentleman Correspondent. He says: ‘'Sounds as well as scenes remain in my memory tor years. The notes of a bell-bird bring back to niy mini! a gully 01 native bush, ferns, scrub, palms, and runu with the unseen songster peeling out it* wondeifu-lv ringing music. ‘‘Have any of your currespondents • realised the power that scents have to | recall pnst seems to memory? The went .if a rosemary bush may at once be connected with the kitchen garden of one’s childhood, anil so with many well-kni'i'n flowers Scents, seern's. and sound'- are interwoven in the fabric ot rcntembr.inco. “1 have just read a book hi Richard King, who evidently enjoys his visual imaginery for ho writes : — “ ‘Personally I am not fond of talk- ’ inc when I am driving It is w

thriSling to look around one, making mental notes and storing up memories which willl fill up delightfully many an idle hour later on, when 1 have finished everything that I may do and there is nothing to see but tho dull! and too well known vista of the house opposite. So many people go about and seem to see nothing, nor want to see anything.’ ”