It is Quint who seeks a boy "slick as a juggler's mate to catch my thought", but the words could well be Oberon's.
Then slowly, I began dismantling the old State - every time I'd catch a thought from Sad Pathetic Beth, I'd replace it with one from Wildly Friggin' Impressive.
Woolf's protagonist passes a man called Scrope Purvis, and we suddenly catch his thoughts, as if they were some briefly audible skein of sound.
But when he talks about his father, the words come out in an anguished stutter and his right hand flutters up to his mouth as if to catch the thoughts.
Better to do as Woolf does in her 1930s essays on London, written for Good Housekeeping magazine, and catch at thoughts and feelings, the immediate perception of things, so as to be able to say, like Lily Briscoe in To The Lighthouse, Yes, I have had my vision.
Try this: Catch your thoughts.
The golf course was always a great place to marvel at natural beauty, catch your thoughts and try to figure things out... it still is.
"As I lingered with the prose of the Zibaldone, I came to see it as writing that was trying to keep up, or catch up, with thought… thought followed by counter-thought, argument by counter-argument".
