[ilds] In the footsteps of LD

[Bruce Redwine]

David,

Yes.  Durrell's house on Cyprus is not as I imagined.  Like a childhood memory, I made it bigger.  I also visualized an isolated place, on the edge of town, as you describe, or near a promontory.  Perhaps Bellapaix has grown since the 1950s.  Greek islands are extraordinarily beautiful, but would Corfu, Rhodes, or Cyprus be as popular were it not for Durrell's books?  I think not.


Bruce



On Jan 21, 2011, at 7:42 PM, Denise Tart & David Green wrote:

> yes. loved the photos. from reading Bitter Lemons I always imaged Larry's 
> house to be in a wilder more on the edge of town type landscape with more 
> vegetation. could be an Australian thing; this country being a barely tamed 
> wilderness even in the cities.
> 
> The way writers write about places often contains their inner souls or 
> extravagant imaginations which cannot always be picked up when you visit the 
> place - the only exception to this, in my case, was Dylan Thomas's Boat 
> House at Laugharne; exactly as I imagined it from his poems and stories - as 
> sad and grand and as Thomasy as you could wish. But the Thomas's writing is 
> shy and introverted whereas LD's is big colours and extroverted; octopus in 
> red sauce and citrus tones and naked nymphs in modern guise.
> 
> My brother and I had excellent trout and leeks for lunch at Brown's Hotel, 
> washed down by several pints of brown Welsh beer. We then did the Poem in 
> October walk.
> 
> DG
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "James Gifford" <james.d.gifford at gmail.com>
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2011 9:16 AM
> To: "ILDS Listserv" <ilds at lists.uvic.ca>
> Subject: [ilds] In the footsteps of LD
> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> Many of you may remember Lea Stogdale from the ILDS conference in
>> Victoria.  She's continued her travels and invite people to take a look
>> (here's the link to her LD photos on Cyprus):
>> 
>> 
>> Lea
>> Lea Stogdale
>> 

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