[ilds] Bravo: Not to be Known Always Wounds

[Bruce Redwine]

Yes, let me also congratulate David Green on his very good poem about  
those "doubles," L. Durrell and H. Miller.  It's particularly apt  
during this season of Nobel awards.  Undoubtedly those two coveted  
such an award, but there's another side to LD, the one I recall best,  
who has Mountolive quote from his father's preface to a Pali text:   
"For those of us who stand upon the margins of the world, as yet  
unsolicited by any God, the only truth is that work itself is Love."   
That's the way I prefer to see M. Durrell in Provence.  That's the  
Durrell who wanted, however seriously, to join an old man in some  
remote Buddhist monastery.

Bruce


On Oct 9, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Denise Tart & David Green wrote:

> I quite enjoyed that. So sad in the collected Letters – hoping for a  
> Nobel Prize that never came.
>
> -- Ken
>
>
> Thanks Ken. I wrote it after an afternoon in my study listening to  
> ILDS lectures and seminars and interviews with LD, Miller reading  
> his work and reading through Justine so this poem thing has many  
> authors really and I'm just a cobbler by trade.
>
> Fame can be fleeting. Durrell is lucky in a way that IDLS exists.  
> The Americans have done much to promote him. His not being actually  
> being English and his continental themes have probably limited the  
> study of him in Britain.
>
> Cheers
>
> David
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