[ilds] Durrell on the French

[Charles Sligh]

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From: Bruce Redwine <bredwine1968 at earthlink.net>

Should we simply  
attribute the comment to Darley's naïveté?  Or is this actually  
Durrell the narrator speaking?  

Bruce:

Let me also add I would read Darley's comment on Pombal "meretricious" charm as a part of the larger strategy of the opening edpisodes of _Justine_, which put the "Pudding Island" moral certainties of Bournemouth &c. into alien and uncomfortable surrounding.  

Marquis de Sade, Freud, Homosexuality, Gay Poets and Poetry, spices, Adultery, exotic dancers, Child Prostitution, Hashish, slaughtered camels, a dead fetus, and charming lady-killing Frenchmen--oh my. . . .

That said, how does Darley's pronouncement about "French Thought" work if we bring it into proximity with the opening epigraph on "Lovely Therese" and her little mind?

C&c.

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Charles L. Sligh
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