Bella Pollen
Bella Pollen is an author, journalist and travel writer who has contributed to Vogue, the Spectator, The Times and other publications. She is the author of five novels, including Hunting Unicorns and The Summer of the Bear. Pollen divides her time between London and the US. ‘Possession’ is an essay from a forthcoming collection of memoir pieces.
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Essays & Memoir | Issue 132
Possession
Bella Pollen
‘The brain is a bureaucratic organ with an almost neurotic determination to balance its books. To account to the department of logic for terror, it calls on the office of imagination to conjure up a worthy vision.’