[ilds] Wasp....

[Denise Tart & David Green]

ah! my dear marc, don't be so sure of your judgment about us wasps. we Anglo 
Saxons, like the Germans have a long history of sexual deviancy and indeed 
kinkiness that I am sure the Latin world is well aware of. is it not Carla 
in Brideshead Revisited who comments on 'these friendships of the English 
and the Germans'. while it is implied that she is refering to deep soul 
love, certainly in the case of Hugh Lygon there was more to it - but then 
Lygon was catholic. I am also thinking of San Francisco and Sydney, not too 
mention Berlin or the fact that Herman Goering put nail polish on his toe 
nails. As for LD, he was definitely a sponge rather than a stone, a soaker 
up of experience, but we must be careful here; the creation of characters 
does necessarily reflect upon the preferences of the author which, as Bill 
as pointed out were decidedly towards the curvaceous forms of women, even if 
he did not always think much of them intellectually (Durrell Miller 
Letters). perhaps Bill can paint a picture of the old onion seller on a 
north American campus surrounded by adoring maidens....?

David lapsed protestant

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From: "Marc Piel" <marcpiel at interdesign.fr>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 8:43 AM
To: "Durrell list" <ilds at lists.uvic.ca>
Subject: [ilds] Wasp....

> Surely a lot of the recent remarks about sexuality
> are very waspish?!!! I didn't realise that this
> attitude still existed in America, but appreently
> it is still quite strong. Explains a lot!
> B.R.
> Marc
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