[ilds] transcendental dimension in the Dark Labyrinth

[Denise Tart & David Green]

Cheers Charles. I try not to be shy of much...remembering the words of U.S Grant who said something like 'when I learned that the enemy were as afraid of me as I was of him, I determined to advance'...but agree that the word transcendental can be overused. However in the case of DL most apt. And it just struck like a champagne cork LD = Lawrence Durrell, DL = Dark Labyrinth; perhaps then his most autobiographical work and hence the one he least liked to talk about or dismissed as a pot boiler to mask attention to himself. There are many LDs in DL!

David


From: Charles Sligh 
Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 12:12 PM
To: Denise Tart & David Green ; ilds at lists.uvic.ca 
Subject: Re: [ilds] transcendental dimension in the Dark Labyrinth


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
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Department of English
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
charles-sligh at utc.edu
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