Sven BERLIN (1911-1999) 'The Dome of Glass. Cold Eye' A fold...

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Sven BERLIN (1911-1999) 'The Dome of Glass. Cold Eye' A folder of loose notes titled 'The Dome of Glass. Notes. Cold Eye'. Although unpublished, 'Cold Eye', is part of Berlin's collection of semi-autobiographical texts named 'The Dome of Glass'. With five texts included in this collection, (Spectre, Pride of the Peacock, I Am Lazarus, The Dark Monarch and Cold Eye), each text represents a chapter of Berlin's life that is characterised by different 'quests'. They exist individually as notable works, yet when together form a significant and complete image of Berlin. He writes - 'This work is conceived as a dome in which the pieces of experience - the coloured glass - are fitted, giving in the end an experience larger than itself. If one thinks of a whole personality as a tree growing under the dome of glass with roots deep in the universal mind the force is at once given as a growing organism reacting toward eternity.' Each book is a singular root of experience, which collectively form the tree (Berlin). 'Cold Eye' is said to be the final part of the six 'roots', and is characterised by the subtitle 'Creation & Love'. A note within the folder makes reference to Cornwall, and to 'Cuckoo', Berlin's pseudonym for the town of St. Ives in his novel 'The Dark Monarch', first published in 1962.