The head as prison-world — "the sixteen-inch diameter of bone"

echoes

Early text: the need to get the words & voices not only out — "outside the sixteen-inch diameter of bone that both births & imprisons them"; the solipsist left "with only your head, now, for not only company but environment & world"; "the drowning-pool of self-consciousness". [the writing-urge passage + the loss-passage] [e-text]
IJ echo: IJ's imagery of the skull as prison and world — Hal's sealed interior (the mind that watches itself and cannot get out), the novel's recurring figure of consciousness locked inside the head; the depressive interiority (Kate Gompert; the "It"). The "sixteen-inch diameter of bone that both births & imprisons them" is, six years early, the exact figure of the head as both origin and cage that IJ's interiority runs on.
Weight: shared-preoccupation