[ilds] durrell and smiths

[Bruce Redwine]

RWH,

"I think the theatrical is always there with Durrell."

Absolutely yes to that.  My question is, did he always know the  
difference between playing it for an audience or playing it for real?   
Did he know the difference between his own fictions and the facts?  I  
wouldn't call Oxford or Cambridge "awful places."  Those institutions  
may not have been right for Durrell, but I wouldn't negate the  
academic experience.  As David Green relates, Durrell apparently had  
regrets, later in life, about not attending those universities.


Bruce


On Oct 3, 2009, at 1:49 AM, RW HEDGES wrote:

>  Lawrence Durrell wanted to eat those bags of crisps you get with  
> the seperate salt satchet. To me his infactuation with grotty little  
> Soho writers and late night coffee rants was to be a decider in  
> avoiding such awful places as Oxford and Cambridge where there was  
> no real life or people. Of course its all fibs. He was building a  
> sculpture of himself for the world. He was a big child in my eyes  
> and no big child should be whipped into convention by a school that  
> looks like the house of a dead God. Did he or didnt he? I think the  
> theatrical is always there with Durrell. He and his friends had  
> their fists up battering the face of the world, the face of  
> civilisation. The English flavoured civilisation. If you havent  
> heard this its worth a listen:
>
> http://www.ubu.com/sound/miller.html
>
> Select the Jazz Passacaglia and a recorded letter (A tribute ro  
> H.Miller by Lawrence Durrell and Alfred Perles)
>
>  Good recent posts, I could understand them.....
>
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