[ilds] Selected Fictions

[Bruce Redwine]

I opt for question two and answer in the affirmative.  We do have a  
"central core of self."  And that answer Durrell himself gives.  A  
deathbed conversion?  Read one of his last poems, "Le cercle  
refermé."  I hear one voice, not multiple, from the beginning of his  
life in India to the end in Provence:

With lunar leanings, I was crafty in loving,
Or jaunty as a god of the bullfrogs,
The uncanny promptings of the human I.


Bruce


On Oct 3, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Godshalk, William (godshawl) wrote:

> Because we do diverse things with our bodies and mind, are we  
> different selves when we do different things? Or do we have a  
> central core of self that was there when we were born and will be  
> there as we die?
>
> Bill