[ilds] An Invitation to a repeat of the past?

[durrell at bigpond.com]

Bruce.....thanks once again for recognising the true essence of LD's literary mission and my empathy towards his heraldic perspective and spiritual quest....he is a literary bodhisattva....i sense a shift in your engagement with LD towards an insight with which I contentedly concur....that is one can view the outpouring of his creative works as an expressive externalised reaction to his spiritual revelations....thus in a sense i propose that his works are more accurately viewed as epiphenomenonal rather than cognitively constructed and yet they remain strongly transformational within the cognitive sets of his loyal disciples.....nevertheless i maintain that if one can absorb the works of LD with an intuitional openess of his primary heraldic drive then his creativity can be intimately consumed and savoured rather than merely tongue tasted....

As for the ilds I can only say that the ilds moderators have not been moved to apologise to me for their permissive neglect in failing to censor a series of rapid and frenzied attacks on me by a prickly member.....moreover there has not been any guarantee that the situation would now be any different should similar events recur....naturally i am cautious to expose myself to another round of inappropriate and unnecessary abuse when there are so many unresolved issues flowing from the last, unchecked, abusive encounter....

Now that ricky pine has had time to restore his emotional equilibrium he is probably very keen to apologise not just to me but to the ilds group for his spiteful and vicious words which he now hopefully regrets commiting to print....furthermore it may be therapeutic for ricky to recount why he was not moved to say something to me on corfu....i have video footage of my impromptu speech delivered to an 'ambushed'-in the true spirit of LD's character-dsc white house luncheon party at kalami bay which includes the closing applause of all 20 present-including ricky....this paradox of why ricky was so polite and receptive to me in person on corfu and then to have him aggressively ridicule my contribution and my person days to weeks later on the ilds forum is puzzling two-faced enigma.

best wishes
DrD
---- Bruce Redwine <bredwine1968 at earthlink.net> wrote: 
> Thanks for the comment, Ilyas.  Yes, I think Dr. Durrell should be welcomed to join the discussions.  He has insights into Lawrence Durrell's spiritual side which often get overlooked but which Durrell himself held in great importance.
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> Bruce
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> -----Original Message-----
> >From: Ilyas <ilyas.khan at crosby.com>
> >Sent: May 22, 2008 6:50 AM
> >To: "Bruce Redwine , ilds at lists.uvic.ca" <bredwine1968 at earthlink.net>
> >Subject: Re: [ilds] caveat
> >
> >Bruce I think it was one person in particular who attacked and you are  
> >right to note that the rest of us mostly remained silent. I don't  
> >enjoy our antipodean's messages or appreciate them as you do but I do  
> >think he was treated harshly. However if he won't join then that is  
> >his choice I guess. Are you suggesting we invite him back ?
> >
> >Sent from my iPhone
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