[ilds] unexpectedly quoting cavafy

[csligh]

James Gifford wrote:

> The Freud and Sade quotations at the outset 
> strike me as saying "Yes," our narrator is aware.  
Do we think that Darley holds responsibility for selecting and placing 
the epigraphs before Part I of /Justine/?  How could we determine that? 

After all, in the "Consequential Data" to /Balthazar/, Keats notes that 
Pursewarden was the writer who had the habit of choosing an epigraph 
from de Sade.  If we credit Darley with placing these epigraphs in 
/Justine/, do we imagine the act as homage to Pursewarden?

Who writes the note and the dedication to /Justine/?  We could perhaps 
imagine one answer for /Justine/--"Eve" &c.--but then as the "L.D. / 
Ascona 1957" indicates, Durrell's hand clearly takes precedence with the 
fore-matter for /Balthazar/ &c.  (In Balthazar, we have the following 
order: L.D.'s "NOTE" |  de Sade epigraphs | dedication to "MY MOTHER.")

I have already asked whether or not we are supposed to believe in the 
fiction that Darley translates the Cavafy poems included in the 
Workpoints / Consequential Data for /Justine/.  Again, how precisely 
does one determine when and where the fictional Darley's hand leaves off 
and Durrell the Creator's hand begins in the appendices to /Justine/?

Charles