[ilds] The Ariadne Objective

[Bruce Redwine]

Charles has it right.  Durrell at a bar on Gezira Island, Cairo, or at the Shepheard's long bar.  There he meets Fermor, and there they share a drink with Gen. Kreipe, formerly CG of the Wehrmacht on Crete.  They recite Latin poetry (Fermor claims the general knew his Horace) and exchange stories . . .

Bruce

-----Original Message-----
>From: slighcl <slighcl at wfu.edu>
>Sent: May 22, 2008 1:25 PM
>To: Bruce Redwine <bredwine1968 at earthlink.net>, ilds at lists.uvic.ca
>Subject: Re: [ilds] The Ariadne Objective
>
>On 5/22/2008 3:41 PM, Bruce Redwine wrote:
>>
>>         Lawrence Durrell???  That would be news.  If I'm not mistaken, W. Stanley Moss in his Ill Met by Moonlight (1950), the first-hand account of that famous British commando raid, makes no mention of Lawrence Durrell, who, I believe, had nothing to do with British military operations in WWII.  Waugh, Dahl, and Fermor did serve in the British military.
>>               
>>
>I think that perhaps we are misunderstanding an ill-written sentence:
>
>>>         It tells the story of British 
>>>         Special Operations forces on Crete in WWII who, aided by the Greek 
>>>         resistance, brazenly kidnapped the German general in command of land 
>>>         forces, and stars some of the leading literary lights of the 
>>>         day---Evelyn Waugh, Roald Dahl, Lawrence Durrell and Patrick Leigh 
>>>         Fermor. 
>
>Read that again (with patience).  I take the blurb to mean that /The 
>Ariadne Project/ tells the story of British Special Operations forces on 
>Crete, with attention given to other persons of note who were at work in 
>the Mediterranean during the conflict.  Durrell probably makes a cameo 
>sitting at a bar or typing behind a desk.  But who can say?
>
>If anyone else knows more specifics about this project, please do let 
>the listserv know.
>
>C&c.