[ilds] The Dark Labyrinth

[Denise Tart & David Green]

Campion is an artist, as Durrell played around with his paints, and also the name of a minor Renaissance poet, as LGD was at this stage in his literary career.  So what's his fate?

Perhaps Campion, having used his shoes to break the surface tension of the water, plunged into the sea eternal and, upon surfacing, swam to an island with or without Virginia and there he found a remote monastery on a promontory above a bathing beach and, sustained by the frugal hospitality of a bearded monk, he began his most serious work as an artist......

mmm...1947, Larry was at that time on Rhodes. islands, sea water, monks and dues loci feature prominently. He was still in his island phase, at it's high point, embracing the blue and sunlit isolation after the dark labyrinth of Egypt, a place which, despite his later 4 volume outpouring, he loathed. he had not yet embraced the realm of Caesar's Vast Ghost. It is all about island as places of spiritual and artistic renewal which is what most of the castaways on Crete achieve in some form.

David


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