[ilds] [Fwd: FW: The Writer's Almanac for February 27, 2010 ---- Today is Lawrence Durrell's Birthday]

Sat Feb 27 13:37:52 PST 2010

Thank you, Ken.

Happy birthday to Lawrence Durrell.

CLS

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Subject: 	FW: The Writer's Almanac for February 27, 2010 ---- Today is 
Lawrence Durrell's Birthday
Date: 	Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:02:50 -0800
From: 	Ken Gammage <Ken.Gammage at directed.com>
To: 	charles-sligh at utc.edu <charles-sligh at utc.edu>
References: 
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Professor Sligh, just FYI - I didn't see an e-mail about this today.

Cheers,

Ken
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*From:* Ken Gammage
*Sent:* Saturday, February 27, 2010 11:54 AM
*To:* Bill Johns
*Subject:* RE: The Writer's Almanac for February 27, 2010 ---- Today is 
Lawrence Durrell's Birthday

That is great to know! I am working on my paper - that's synchronicity 
in action. I made a Michaelada the same way I've been doing but with a 
Bohemia instead. It was OK - I still like the Cheladas.

Cheers,

- Ken
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*From:* Bill Johns [wjohns9 at cox.net]
*Sent:* Saturday, February 27, 2010 10:20 AM
*To:* Ken Gammage
*Subject:* The Writer's Almanac for February 27, 2010 ---- Today is 
Lawrence Durrell's Birthday

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born in Salinas, California (1902). He is the author of the epic novel 
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born in Lawton, Oklahoma (1934). He started writing, and he was working 
on a project about the sacred Sun Dance doll of the Kiowa tribe. He 
tried to write a book of poems based on the experience, but a teacher 
suggested he turn the poems into fiction, and that became his first 
novel, /House Made of Dawn/ (1968), which won the Pulitzer Prize.

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born to a British father and Irish mother in Jullundur, India (1911). 
He's best known for his experimental tetralogy /The Alexandria Quartet./

When Durrell was 11, his parents sent him off to England to boarding 
school so he could get a proper British education. He hated living in 
England and said, "English life is really like an autopsy. It is so, so 
dreary." Cambridge rejected him, and he left the country and spent most 
of the rest of his life abroad.

Before he could make a living solely from his writing, he sold real 
estate, played jazz piano in nightclubs, raced fast cars, ran a 
photography studio, worked as a teacher, edited various publications, 
worked for the British Information Office, worked in public relations 
and as a press attaché for the British government. In the span of 15 
years, he lived Paris; Kalamata, Greece; Cairo; Alexandria; Cordoba, 
Argentina; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; and Cyprus. Briefly he was a special 
correspondent for /The Economist /magazine. He eventually returned to 
France and settled there.

It was in Paris in the late 1930s that Lawrence Durrell met Henry 
Miller. He'd read Henry Miller's Book /Tropic of Cancer/, been totally 
impressed, and written Miller a fan letter. The two men met up, became 
fast friends, and started editing a literary magazine together. They 
would exchange letters for the next five decades. Durrell's early books 
were very much imitations of Miller's writing.

/The Alexandria Quartet,/ Durrell's best-known work, is a set of four 
experimental books, each of which covers the same set of events but from 
a different narrative viewpoint. Durrell explained that he hoped to 
write a book about love and memory and space that would blend Einstein's 
theory of relativity with ideas of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung and 
Indian mysticism and Chinese philosophy. He said the story "is a 
four-dimensional dance, a relativity poem." Rather than being structured 
by chronology, the story is structured by memory and geography.

The four books are /Justine /(1957), /Balthazar/ (1958), /Mountolive/ 
(1958), /Clea /(1960). The first novel is narrated by a young 
Englishman, a struggling writer and schoolteacher who recounts his love 
affair with a rich and beautiful married Jewish woman in Alexandria whom 
everyone else also seemed to be in love with. In it, he narrates: "A 
city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants." And, "A 
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