[ilds] transcendental dimension in the Dark Labyrinth

[Charles Sligh]

On 4/22/11 9:05 PM, Denise Tart & David Green wrote:

>         /"..as the season deepened they could hear the roar of
>         avalanches where the higher snow melted upon the desolate face
>         of stone. the wind strummed fitfully in the pines. They might
>         have been in Asia....and his wife lying down with her hands
>         behind her head, smiled up her content and happiness as she
>         chewed a grass stalk. She had realised that the roof of the
>         world did not really exist, except in their own imaginations!
>         (p 255/6)/
>         This only a taste, I know, but if it draws listees towards
>         this metaphoric and transcendental and much neglected piece of
>         Durrell's work, then I shall be able to head off the pub this
>         afternoon secure in the knowledge that this most spiritual of
>         Durrell's works has received appropriate attention.

I do like that passage, David.

I do not know what it means.  But the thing lingers -- I will not claim 
"transcendentally" -- I am too shy of such words these days!  To say 
that it lingers seems best.

Rest well --

C&c.

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Charles L. Sligh
Assistant Professor
Department of English
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
charles-sligh at utc.edu
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