[ilds] durrell and astrology

[Charles Sligh]

On 10/10/11 5:40 AM, Meta Cerar wrote:

>     I haven't received any durrellian post quite for some time, but I
>     do hope this silence is only temporary. 

Thanks for this note, Meta.  Would you please send me any publication 
information that you have for your translation?  Thank you.  I will be 
happy to post announcements about your publication via the Durrell 2012: 
The Lawrence Durrell Centenary <http://durrell2012.wordpress.com/> 
website, Durrell 2012 
<http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=179878708736021> on Facebook, and 
Durrell 2012 on Twitter.  (If you are not subscribed to the blog and 
those feeds and checking in regularly, then you are missing the main 
source of news for all things 2012.)

For my own part, my energies are mostly taken up with family matters, 
coordinating the Durrell Centenary, and teaching my courses here at 
university.  The reading list for this semester's "Seminar in the Novel" 
course speaks volumes (/literally/!) for the classroom time-commitment: 
/The Alexandria Quartet/; /One Hundred Years of Solitude/; /Gravity's 
Rainbow/; /Little, Big/; /Nights at the Circus/.

I hope that others here on the listserv will make suggestions about 
Durrell's interest in things astrological, occult. and arcane.  For a 
quick start, you might try Carol Peirce's

        "Intimations of Power Within": Durrell's Heavenly Game of the
        Tarot." Critical Essays on
        Lawrence Durrell, Ed. Alan Warren Friedman, 200-213. Boston:
        G.K. Hall & Co., 1987.


Also, browsing the terminal index to Richard Pine's /Lawrence Durrell: 
The Mindscape/ will almost always prove fruitful.

In the /Quartet/, if you have not been back there recently, try 
reviewing Clea's practices and Da Capo's tall tale.

Good luck with your endeavors, Meta, and please keep me posted.  (Please 
let me know about the "round-table" that you mention.  I am always happy 
to "boost.")

Charles

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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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