[ilds] Persian Ladies

[Bruce Redwine]

You're right, Charles.  But I would add a remark that Michael Haag made sometime ago, that Durrell had his own personal code, and I would add that there's no point in referencing the "code unbroken" unless one wants someone to break it.  I see the Dark Lady as a Justine/Eve Cohen figure.


Bruce


-----Original Message-----
>From: slighcl <slighcl at wfu.edu>
>Sent: Feb 27, 2008 3:51 PM
>To: Bruce Redwine <bredwine1968 at earthlink.net>, ilds at lists.uvic.ca
>Subject: Re: [ilds] Persian Ladies
>
>I wish I could do so much for you, Bruce.  My intent was simply to say 
>'AVE' to Old D on the day of his nativity. 
>
>Beyond that, I can only make associative gestures.  I thought that the 
>first poem seemed an interesting admixture of Keats (still unravish'd) 
>and Cavafy (the affair that is recollected, not because of its 
>consummation, but because it was exquisitely and achingly deferred).  
>The second poem was more directly about a birthday--this one for 
>Penelope--but also Keatsian.
>
>Mr. D--he stained the silence.
>
>Charles