[ilds] durrell and astrology

[Allyson]

There is a reference to the tarot in The World of Lawrence Durrell by Harry
T Moore. This is located in the essay by Carl Bode A Guide to Alexandria. In
this essay he reads some of the characters of the Quartet using the Tarot
cards.

 

Regards,

Allyson

 

From: ilds-bounces at lists.uvic.ca [mailto:ilds-bounces at lists.uvic.ca] On
Behalf Of Charles Sligh
Sent: 10 October 2011 03:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [ilds] durrell and astrology

 

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 <http://durrell2012.wordpress.com/>  Centenary 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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