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[James Gifford]

Bill,

Out of curiosity, what happened to that letter, and can I quote you on 
this?  Please tell me he explained the ending of Quinx in another letter 
you don't have but that I can quote.

Grins,
Jamie

william godshalk wrote:
>> Jamie writes:
>>
>> . . . there are no "Justines" in Durrell until the Quartet,
>> but Melissa has been endlessly repeated in his novels since the outset
>> in 1935.  I'm puzzled by these repetitions, like a compulsion you might
>> say, or the endless return of the repressed.
> Durrell told me, after I found that Melissa is a medicinal plant, 
> that the Melissas were initiates in the Eleusisian mysteries. I have 
> not been able to verify his assertion, nor do I have the letter in 
> which he told me this.
> 
> Bill
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