BOOK READING CH 4+5+6

4 Nest

"...Men can do everything except build a bird's nest." Bachelard is stating that men, with all their wisdom, tools, and power are incapable of building a nest. "According to Michelet, a bird is a worker without tools." Bachelard mentions Thoreau's theory of the tree becoming a nest for daydreamers to hide away and be able to dream and make memories. "A tree becomes a nest the moment a great dreamer hides in it." Confidence is introduced as a means to build a shelter. Bachelard poses the question," Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world". "Mankind's nest, like his world, is never finished. And imagination helps us to continue"

5 Shells

Bachelard begins by explaining that shells are constructed by some kind of transcendental geometry, which stands out from the disorder of most perceptible things. Creatures hide shells for shelter and an area for meditation just like homes provide the same for us “To emerge”

6 Corners

Bachelard presents corners, as the providers for the daydreams, and all those warm, comfortable feelings we get in our home, the feeling of protection. “Every corner, of a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, o tog a house.” The creature retreats into its own private corner, a corner which assures immobility.