[ilds] Somewhere moment matures to anywhere moment

[Bruce Redwine]

A lot of Durrell is all about "evocation."


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>>> To: Bruce Redwine <bredwine1968 at earthlink.net>
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>>> somewhere is intentionally used here with great leverage to disorientate and thrust the reader into a mental sphere with such cognitive gravity, so self absorbed, that their time and hence space are transcended.....in these somewhere moments we become independent of physical orientation and move effortlessly within an inner vastness that displaces any sense worth to the outer world with its lilliputian proportions...that infantile somewhere moment is now growing and may mature into an anywhere moment!  Dr. D.
>"[Days on Rhodes] follow each other in scales and modes too quickly 
>almost to be captured in the nets of form[. . . .]  Only by a strict 
>submission to the laws of inconsequence can one ever write about an 
>island[. . . .]"
>
>So "somewhere" is a crafty blend of metaphor, psychic state, and 
>rhetorical strategy. 
>
>For the rhetorical strategy, read "somewhere" as the Odyssean wanderer's 
>gesture par excellence--"Oh yes, now I seem to recollect it:  I ran 
>across that old saying or that old friend /somewhere /among the many, 
>many scattered /otherwheres/, other men and their manners." 
>
>Somewhere evokes by implication, evocation.
>
>Dr. C.