[ilds] Selected Fictions

[Godshalk, William (godshawl)]

I think that Durrell  would have no truck with the idea that we have a central core of selfhood. He at least seems to believe in a fragmented self, one that is not at all continuous. 

But how can we live in a distorted way?

Bill 

W. L. Godshalk *
Department of English    *           *
University of Cincinnati*   * Stellar Disorder  *
OH 45221-0069 *  *
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Subject: Re: [ilds] Selected Fictions

Yes.  Most of us, perhaps all.


On Oct 4, 2009, at 4:41 AM, Marc Piel wrote:

> There is a central core, but most of us live it in
> a distorted way.
> Look up the "Enneargram" !
> @+
> Marc
>
> Bruce Redwine a écrit :
>> 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
>>
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