ABSTRACT
Daniel Heller-Roazen notes that scholars have wondered if the "common sense" might be a name for consciousness, perhaps even an anticipation of Immanuel Kant's synthetic unity of apperception. The different animal species inhabit different perceptual worlds, each the characteristic product of its species-specific common sense. Relevant is Aristotle's description of the common sense as unitary and "self-identical" in space and time. The complex sensations that the common sense delivers are bound, by definition, to the moment of self-perception, "a single moment of time," "now". The pyschological narcissist in Visions of the Daughters of Albion is Theotormon, devoted as he is to onanistic "self enjoyings of self denial". His continuing isolation only heightens the question of how Oothoon's real-life audience might respond to her plight. The vicious regress implicit in David Hume's metaphor well describes the strange self-absence one feels in trying to read Visions of the Daughters of Albion realistically as a drama descriptive of events taking place "out there."
