From rwhedges at hotmail.co.uk  Wed Aug  5 15:17:14 2009
From: rwhedges at hotmail.co.uk (RW HEDGES)
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 I'm reading spirit of place. An earthy Durrell. A human Durrell.

 More my Durrell...

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From rwhedges at hotmail.co.uk  Thu Aug  6 12:22:51 2009
From: rwhedges at hotmail.co.uk (RW HEDGES)
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 19:22:51 +0000
Subject: [ilds] Spirit of place the film?
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 Did anyone ever answer my question as to where on earth the film of spirit of place can be found?

 

  As I said before I have been enjoying it very much, along with Prosperos cell. Certainly as much fun to read as Millers Collosus.

  That brings me back to the fact that Durrell in his letters is very teasing towards his friends and contempories in regards to Tropic of Cancer and having read the Durrell miller letters I have to say that the Durrell explanation is void without this rogue (in the eyes of serious Durrellians Miller comes across as some sort of Spastic Sex offending word ape) I still regard the later Miller books as being wholesome from 'Remember to remember' to 'Stand still like the hummingbird' he lets you right in on the living side of life. Or he plays silly and pretty with 'The smile at the foot of the ladder' which apart from its shock happy ending is Tove Jansen worthy. Thats what Durrell loved right? The man in us, the woman in us. Certainly least of all the artist if many of his characters and thoughts on other writers is anything to go by.  That signed picture of Miller and Durrell I have with Durrell wearing the Bernard Shaw Moustache and grinning like a toffee covered etonian still makes me smile.

 I also have to say that David Green very kindly helped me compose what you guys might see as a tiddly little poem (Prosperos) for fellow Durrellians and I think his support and friendship has made being on this site a very real and worthy experience for me, as flammy and out of touch as I may seem. I think thats whats great about Durrells travel books. They have the literary man down to the skin. I like that. I like the hump back, the paunch and the devil. At least as much as any mystical character from the Quartet (of which I am still paused in time at the beginning of Balthazar).  

 Anyway. Rain In LOndon and I want to pull all of the protruding parts of my body off and fry them and then eat them. Thats the day job talking. Calm down Roy its ok. Keep calming with Spirit of place and a glass of Ventroux. Phew.

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From Charles-Sligh at utc.edu  Thu Aug  6 13:49:26 2009
From: Charles-Sligh at utc.edu (Charles Sligh)
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:49:26 -0400
Subject: [ilds] =?utf-8?q?a_trip_through_Tito=E2=80=99s_Yugoslavia?=
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karl orend wrote:
> For Durrell see this week's TLS
>   
> [1948] also saw the publication of George Orwell?s Nineteen 
> Eighty-Four. A volume of his writings for Tribune in the preceding 
> years and a new study place Orwell, who ?more than any other British 
> author of the twentieth century has escaped from his own time?, as 
> Richard Vinen says, rewardingly back in it. *A year later, in 1949, 
> Lawrence Durrell (Information Officer, Belgrade) undertook a trip 
> through Tito?s Yugoslavia: his report, exhumed from the National 
> Archives at Kew, is this week?s Commentary. *

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6739883.ece

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From dtart at bigpond.net.au  Thu Aug  6 13:51:04 2009
From: dtart at bigpond.net.au (Denise Tart & David Green)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 06:51:04 +1000
Subject: [ilds] earthy Durrell
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Yes, the earthy Durrell who loved mediterranean peasant food, cheap wine and cigs and aspired to peasantness through dress: heavy corduroy trousers, thick flanelet checked shirts and course woolen caps and who attended a literary event in the 1980s in the guise of an onion seller. The man who spoke with Public School tones but saw writing as chopping wood, a metaphor for hard work or a link to his peasant image; both methinks.

Both Larry and Gerry had ribald streak a mile wide although Gerry prefered five star hotels and haute cuisine to building stone walls and supping minestrone with a class of cooking claret.

Cheers to Roys comment of Spirit of Place and the Durrell/Miller thing - puts my own ambitions quite in the shade on a bright Sydney morning.

David


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   I'm reading spirit of place. An earthy Durrell. A human Durrell.
   More my Durrell...


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From Charles-Sligh at utc.edu  Thu Aug  6 14:47:07 2009
From: Charles-Sligh at utc.edu (Charles Sligh)
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:47:07 -0400
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Denise Tart & David Green wrote:
> Cheers to Roys comment of Spirit of Place and the Durrell/Miller thing 
> - puts my own ambitions quite in the shade on a bright Sydney morning.
Cheers from mountains and creeks of rural Missouri, where this 
Tennessean is whiling away the afternoon with his books and Mexican beer 
and Chorizo sausage, mulling over this late rally in posting. . . .

> Long walks and
> longer potations characterised my researches-the ideal way to gain
> access to a landscape full of ambiguities and secrets. Yes, secrets black
> with wine and gold with honey, landscapes of an almost brutal serenity
> piled one upon another with quixotic profusion, as if to provoke the
> historic confrontations which made them significant, muddling up the
> sacred and the profane, the trikial and the grandiose, with operatic
> richness, mesmerising one!


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From bredwine1968 at earthlink.net  Fri Aug  7 07:33:13 2009
From: bredwine1968 at earthlink.net (Bruce Redwine)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 07:33:13 -0700
Subject: [ilds] Spirit of place the film?
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RWH,

Dunno about the film, but if you like Spirit of Place, you may enjoy  
Sicilian Carousel, Durrell's last great travel piece, maybe his best.


Bruce


On Aug 6, 2009, at 12:22 PM, RW HEDGES wrote:

>  Did anyone ever answer my question as to where on earth the film of  
> spirit of place can be found?
>
>   As I said before I have been enjoying it very much, along with  
> Prosperos cell. Certainly as much fun to read as Millers Collosus.
>   That brings me back to the fact that Durrell in his letters is  
> very teasing towards his friends and contempories in regards to  
> Tropic of Cancer and having read the Durrell miller letters I have  
> to say that the Durrell explanation is void without this rogue (in  
> the eyes of serious Durrellians Miller comes across as some sort of  
> Spastic Sex offending word ape) I still regard the later Miller  
> books as being wholesome from 'Remember to remember' to 'Stand still  
> like the hummingbird' he lets you right in on the living side of  
> life. Or he plays silly and pretty with 'The smile at the foot of  
> the ladder' which apart from its shock happy ending is Tove Jansen  
> worthy. Thats what Durrell loved right? The man in us, the woman in  
> us. Certainly least of all the artist if many of his characters and  
> thoughts on other writers is anything to go by.  That signed picture  
> of Miller and Durrell I have with Durrell wearing the Bernard Shaw  
> Moustache and grinning like a toffee covered etonian still makes me  
> smile.
>  I also have to say that David Green very kindly helped me compose  
> what you guys might see as a tiddly little poem (Prosperos) for  
> fellow Durrellians and I think his support and friendship has made  
> being on this site a very real and worthy experience for me, as  
> flammy and out of touch as I may seem. I think thats whats great  
> about Durrells travel books. They have the literary man down to the  
> skin. I like that. I like the hump back, the paunch and the devil.  
> At least as much as any mystical character from the Quartet (of  
> which I am still paused in time at the beginning of Balthazar).
>  Anyway. Rain In LOndon and I want to pull all of the protruding  
> parts of my body off and fry them and then eat them. Thats the day  
> job talking. Calm down Roy its ok. Keep calming with Spirit of place  
> and a glass of Ventroux. Phew.
>

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From bredwine1968 at earthlink.net  Fri Aug  7 15:23:09 2009
From: bredwine1968 at earthlink.net (Bruce Redwine)
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 15:23:09 -0700
Subject: [ilds] Poem:  "Lawrence Durrell"
Message-ID: <32D129F0-1D29-41FA-86E0-F80D78C3B852@earthlink.net>

YouTube.  Charles Bryant reads his poem on LD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLoa4d-aevA



From durrell at telstra.com  Sat Aug  8 05:11:40 2009
From: durrell at telstra.com (BIGPOND ACCOUNT)
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2009 22:11:40 +1000
Subject: [ilds] Poem:  "Lawrence Durrell"
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G'day Bruce....thanks for the youtube link and I propose an  
international LD poetry competition:

"paint a
       poetic
           portrait
             of Lawrence Durrell"

The entries can post their entries on you tube and the poem with the  
highest view score in 3 months will win and collect a painting by  
Uncle Efps!....the Australian Durrell Society (ADS) will be sure to  
post a powerful poem and David and I will be hard at work over Shiraz  
to shape an ode to Uncle Epfs.... Perhaps as the berkeley boy you'd  
inspire us a little by squeezing a little poem out about our beloved  
Larry soon.... Hope your well and like to see you on YouTube soon!!
Agape
AD

Sent from my iPhone

On 08/08/2009, at 8:23, Bruce Redwine <bredwine1968 at earthlink.net>  
wrote:

> YouTube.  Charles Bryant reads his poem on LD.
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLoa4d-aevA
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From bredwine1968 at earthlink.net  Sun Aug  9 09:19:19 2009
From: bredwine1968 at earthlink.net (Bruce Redwine)
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 09:19:19 -0700
Subject: [ilds] Poem:  "Lawrence Durrell"
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	<B2FC3C63-4735-4680-8BB7-26EAB3F03095@telstra.com>
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Dr. D.,

Good idea, but I'm no poet, just a lowly critic.  My favorite  
hemistich:  "Bitch bitch bitch!"  Bryant has written a perceptive  
poem, a sad one, which identifies Durrell gifts and problems.  It is a  
"loving tribute," but also an honest one.  I do not, however, find  
most of the poetry, "rather flat," but like Bryant, often wonder,  
"what did it really mean?"  Finally, I just love Bryant's reading ?  
his accent, humor, and cadence.  I append the poem at the end.


Bruce


On Aug 8, 2009, at 5:11 AM, BIGPOND ACCOUNT wrote:

> G'day Bruce....thanks for the youtube link and I propose an
> international LD poetry competition:
>
> "paint a
>      poetic
>          portrait
>            of Lawrence Durrell"
>
> The entries can post their entries on you tube and the poem with the
> highest view score in 3 months will win and collect a painting by
> Uncle Efps!....the Australian Durrell Society (ADS) will be sure to
> post a powerful poem and David and I will be hard at work over Shiraz
> to shape an ode to Uncle Epfs.... Perhaps as the berkeley boy you'd
> inspire us a little by squeezing a little poem out about our beloved
> Larry soon.... Hope your well and like to see you on YouTube soon!!
> Agape
> AD
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 08/08/2009, at 8:23, Bruce Redwine <bredwine1968 at earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
>> YouTube.  Charles Bryant reads his poem on LD.
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLoa4d-aev


LAWRENCE DURRELL

by Charles Bryant

Really rather a grubby little man!
Stink of Gauloises and last night's spilt gin.
Attempting to be fashionably gay,
his heart not really in it.

The sirocco was always blowing;
sometimes the more exotic sharp khamseen;
the shrubbery packed with cicadas sawing away;
bougainvillea blooming up the drive.
Hung over, groping for another drink
and finding the bottle empty.  Bitch bitch bitch!

His publishers deferential but demanding
just like the latest mistress, some old biddy
reeking of the casbah and stale sex.
The awful poetry:  what did it really mean?
Endlessly sprawling novels with Latin names.

An ex-pat to his very ex-pat bones
lounging about Greek islands.  Civil servant
manqu?; admirer of Cavafy
and Krafft-Ebbing.  Scobie
his most glorious creation,
self-portrait with earth-closet;
parrot scurrilously quoting the Koran.