[ilds] The Dark Labyrinth

[Marc Piel]

Thanks for the confirmation; I picked that up 
also, especially with the mention of Slade School.
I have another question, perhaps stupid: why was 
DL first published under the name of Cefalû, which 
as far as I know has nothing to do with Crete?
Must be down on my Greek mythology, even if my 
daughter is named Ariane.
Marc

Le 08/05/11 04:52, Charles Sligh a écrit :
> On 5/6/11 7:54 AM, Meta Cerar wrote:
>
>>     I wonder if the women in the DL, and
>>     especially Boecklin, are really aspects of
>>     Nancy? Unfortunately I know very little
>>     about her from what I've read in the
>>     biographies, so I cannot say, but maybe one
>>     of you can contribute a more elaborate
>>     opinion here?
>
> Hello, Meta.  I am attempting to do my part, 
> enjoying dips into /The Dark Labyrinth/ between 
> some heroic bouts of chainsawing.  (Our oaks are 
> all down on the ground here in Tennessee, 
> post-tornadoes.)
>
> Your question about Nancy's possible presence in 
> the pages of /The Dark Labyrinth/ seems best 
> answered by the following moment, in which 
> Baird's first encounter with his wife is recalled:
>
>>         He met /Alice Lidell/ in the tea-room
>>         of the Tate Gallery and fell in love
>>         with her at sight. She was tall and
>>         beautiful and her fine blonde hair
>>         picked up the reflected light from the
>>         long mirrors, twinkling as she combed
>>         it.  ("Portraits," /The Dark Labyrinth/)
>
> The connection of Alice's elemental blondness 
> with the Slade School makes this more than 
> suggestive, of course.
>
> Why /Alice Lidell/?  I naturally think of Dean 
> Liddell's daughter, Carroll's muse, little Alice 
> Liddell.  As to what any of it means, I can't say.
>
> I smiled just a bit when Hogerth began to 
> lampoon Boyd's book -- which uses psychoanalysis 
> to "trace" repressed truths from Poe's "Raven" 
> and Dickens's novels.  Also curious was Alice's 
> mistrust of "another attempt by these 
> psychologists to put the artist in the strait 
> jacket of a clinical definition."
>
> I will keep reporting my finds.  I hope that 
> others will share as they can.
>
> Charles
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