Icebound Woman I, 1939, pen & ink on paper

Icebound Woman III, 1939, pen & ink on paper

EDITOR'S NOTES

Styrsky didn't interpret his dreams--at least not in print. But this one's title reveals an obvious source: icebound suggests Antarctic expeditions like Shackleton's, much in the news in the last 20 years. So do the rocks and the ice shelf. Ships were referred to as she; the dream just literalizes the personification, has an actual woman sunk in the ice. Against this is that the early sketches show sharp, bloody knife-slashes--personal violence, not a grounding on rocks or a stove-in hull.

But it need not have been violence against him or a friend or a lover. It was the eve of World War II. Plenty of violence to go round.

SOURCE: Dreamverse by Jindrich Styrsky (Twisted Spoon Press, 2018), p.100-101; primary source Sny, 1925-1940 ("Dreams, 1925-40") posthumously published (1970).
TITLE: Styrsky titled all his dreams "Dream of..."; I shortened them to avoid a logjam under D. Titles of sketches don't always match dream titles.

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