Eloquent Body – Dawn Garisch

Pipes are bursting throughout the ship as water frozen in them thaws. In addition, in contravention to the large notice displayed on a weather door, someone left it open and a wave washed through our level. The purser is furious, the hospital floor is under water and it is raining in the dining room. The Bosun and his right-hand man are singing as they repair the pipes. For them it is just another day at sea. I don my boots and wade into the pond sloshing around the hospital floor and help move some equipment to higher ground.

The water supply is switched off for a while and some researchers resort to drinking beer. Fortunately nothing is damaged. The passages and cabin floors become adorned with towels, and after the mop up, the carpet in my cabin looks several shades cleaner. The Germans are largely keeping to themselves. Initially we thought that they were sulking, but it transpires that most do not speak English. Inga is the only one amongst us who speaks German; she reserves this for eavesdropping to discover how much trouble she is in.

Thus far the pickings are disappointing; the Germans talk to each other about technicalities, weather and movies. One young man who speaks English is eager to befriend us and sits with us at table, abandoning his compatriots altogether. He is doing his doctoral thesis on surveying the area for the new German base and reports he had a hard time both outdoors (in blizzards he had difficulty distinguishing up from down) and indoors (he did not get on with his close-range colleagues).

An older man who has been to the Antarctic for five months a year for the past twenty years has been cordial; from these two we have learnt a lot: • The present German base – one of three – is built on the ice shelf and is sinking. It is now ten metres below the surface, and moving northwards at half a metre a day, hence the need to build a new base. • The ice cores they drill out down to two and a half kilometres deep are cut into metre lengths and transported in refrigerated containers for analysis in Germany.

Once there, they are cut in half lengthwise and half are stored so that when improved methods are developed to analyse the samples, they don’t have to go back and drill more out again. They have found a layer of volcanic ash of the same age spread over a quarter of Antarctica, pointing to a massive volcanic eruption some one hundred thousand years ago, probably in New Zealand.

Publication © Modjaji Books 2012 Copyright © Dawn Garisch 2012 First published in 2012 by Modjaji Books PTY Ltd P O Box 385, Athlone, 7760, South Africa [email protected] http://modjaji.book.co.za www.modjajibooks.co.za ISBN 978-1-920397-39-5 Cover artwork: Katherine Glenday Cover design: Nicola Glenday Book design: Natascha Mostert and Life is Awesome Design Studio. Thanks to publishers and authors who gave permission for quotes. Details in Endnotes.

Printed and bound by Mega Digital, Cape Town Set in Palatino OceanofPDF.com For Luke and Jon OceanofPDF.com Contents Introduction PART ONE Talking to Myself Across the Table 1. The Science and the Poetry of the Body 2. Dancing to the Whistling 3. The Story of Our Lives 4. The Psyche Doesn’t Speak English 5. The Wounded Healer PART TWO Fear: The Guardian with Two Faces 6.

The Body is a Big Hook 7. The Valley of the Shadow 8. Of Detectives and Gardeners 9. On the Fear of Failure 10. Rhyme or Reason – Fear’s Role in the Brain/body 11. Not Waving, but Drowning 12. Denial, Deception and Illusion 13. Physician, Heal Thyself Interlude 14. Travels in the Eloquent Body PART THREE Tracking the Truth 15. To Trust or not to Trust 16. Instruments of Truth-finding 17. Tracking the Truth as a Scientist 18. Buying Health, Trading in Illness 19. Seeing and Believing 20.

Sickness and Health 21. Truth and the Artist 22. Truth-finding Tools of the Artist 23. Sharpening the Tools PART FOUR Heal Thyself 24. Non-Medicinal Ways to Loosen Torment 25. Dealing with the Inner Critic and the Daimon 26. Of Creativity, Connections and Healing 27. Image and Imagination 28. Going to Source 29. Adequate Images 30. Image and the Body 31. Working with Image 32. In Service 33.

The World in a Grain of Sand 34. Living in the Crocodile’s Mouth 35. Recapturing the Original Plan 36. Changing the End of the Story 37. Of Knives and Glue 38. Endings End notes Acknowledgements OceanofPDF.com Introduction My heart has been speaking; so I have been taking notes Geoffrey Godbert1 A few years ago, I found myself up all night, as though with a new-born. Every time I started dropping off, another thought arrived, demanding that I commit it to paper.

I knew that if I left the ideas till morning, they were unlikely to survive. So I pushed myself upright again and again, scribbling on the closest paper at hand – a prescription pad from work.

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