Showing posts with label DURRELL Lawrence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DURRELL Lawrence. Show all posts
Saturday, January 6, 2018

A Minute Meditation

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All philosophy seems to lead me towards a perfect spiritual detachment- a divorce from the world, and therefore towards sterility and deadne...
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Friday, December 29, 2017

Lawrence Durrell: is this poetry?

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Two young men are talking.  One is Walsh, the main character of Lawrence Durrell's Pied Piper of Lovers and the other is a close friend...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Lawrence Durrell: sense of place, one last word

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"One last word about the sense of place; I think that not enough attention is paid to it as a purely literary criterion.  What makes ...
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Saturday, December 2, 2017

Lawrence Durrell: Spirit of Place

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Lawrence Durrell Spirit of Place:  Letters and Essays on Travel 426 pages Alan G. Thomas, Editor I am now embarked upon a project ...
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Saturday, October 28, 2017

Cavafy: "Desires"

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Cavafy is the poet celebrated by Lawrence Durrell in his "The Alexandria Quartet."  It was those frequent references to him and hi...
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Tuesday, October 3, 2017

Lawrence Durrell: Pope Joan

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Lawrence Durrell:  Pope Joan translated and adapted from the Greek of Emmanuel Royidis.  Brief  quotation from the Wikipedia article o...
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Monday, September 18, 2017

Lawrence Durrell: The Black Book

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Lawrence Durrell The Black Book The Black Book is the novel that gained Lawrence Durrell notice in the literary world.   T. S. Eliot ca...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Lawrence Durrell's The Avignon Quintet: an overall view (my view anyway)

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The Avignon Quintet  (five novels) Monsieur Livia Constance Sebastian Quinx   The following quotation from Constance provides a g...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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"If real people could cohabit with the creatures of their imagination--say, in a novel--then what sort of children would be the frui...
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Friday, May 19, 2017

Lawrence Durrell: Monsieur or The Prince of Darkness

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Lawrence Durrell Monsieur or Prince of Darkness Book 1 of  "The Avignon Quintet"  (aka The Quincunx) Please do not expect an ...
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Thursday, May 11, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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To really appreciate a place or time----to extract the poignant essence of it--one should see it in the light of a departure, a leavetaking...
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Monday, April 17, 2017

Lawrence Durrell: Justine, Pt. 3

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Lawrence Durrell Justine As many have said before and many will repeat in the future, one of the joys and benefits of rereading some wor...
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Sunday, April 2, 2017

Lawrence Durrell: Justine, Pt. 2

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For some reason, the narrator neglected to introduce us to Balthazar, who will be a very important character, as suggested by his name given...
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Thursday, March 2, 2017

A Minute Meditation

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I realized then the truth about all love:  that it is an absolute which takes all or forfeits all.  The other feelings, compassion, tenderne...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Lawrence Durrell: Justine, Part I

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Lawrence Durrell Justine :  the first book in the Alexandria Quartet This is my fourth visit to Alexandria with the aid of Lawrence Durre...
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Thursday, January 19, 2017

Lawrence Durrell: Justine

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One of my New Year's resolutions was to read as much of Lawrence Durrell's works this year as I could.  Today I begin with Justine ,...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Resolutions for the New Year

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Well, this is that time of the year again, so I thought I would post my few resolutions.  Making them public might encourage me to work more...
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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Lawrence Durrell: "A Bowl of Roses"

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A Bowl of Roses 'Spring' says your Alexandrian poet ' Means time of the remission of the rose.' Now here at this tatter...
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Monday, September 28, 2015

Lawrence Durrell: "Lesbos"

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Another of Lawrence Durrell's enigmatic poems--I don't know why I read his poetry, but there's something there that fascinates m...
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Monday, July 21, 2014

Lawrence Durrell: "Mneiae

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I think I had mentioned before that Lawrence Durrell is one of my favorite novelists. His "Alexandria Quartet" and "The Avign...