[ilds] Gideon of Rhodes

[slighcl]

On 5/28/2008 5:55 AM, Denise Tart & David Green wrote:
> However, [Gideon] is a convincing character, so much so that I tempted 
> to think he may be a kind of alter ego for Durrell; a soldier with a 
> love of classics and a poets eye, the hard drinking Englishmen with a 
> sensitive soul, a kind of 'other Durrell' so that the narrator of 
> Reflections can remain a little more aloof, artistic and pure. Perhaps 
> when Mills berates Gideon for 'flogging his liver' it is really LD who 
> was being examined for apparent stomach troubles.
I like your instincts here in your note on /Reflections/, David.  Gideon 
by profession must take a position and act, and that is certainly 
something different than what is required of the "aloof" narrating 
characters in Durrell's island books or Darley in the /Justine/.

I am away from my office and my books at present, but online I find that 
David Roessel in his discussion of Gideon points us to MacNiven 306 and 
722 n2.

I do not believe that anyone has mentioned the other soldier in 
Durrell's works--Maskelyne.  And to turn to the navy, we recall Scobie, 
who seems also to have soldiered with a carbine in the Boer War.

Charles

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Charles L. Sligh
Department of English
Wake Forest University
slighcl at wfu.edu
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