[ilds] durrell and astrology

[Meta Cerar]

Thanks for your kind reply, Charles. I would be happy to send you the
publication info about the translation. What exactly do you need? The
editor's text on the back cover, publisher's announcement, reviews? Of
course it's no use if I send you the texts in Slovenian, so I have to
translate them into English first, which may take a few days. I think the
front cover design is really good, so maybe you can put it on the D. 2012
website, which I'm of course checking in regularly.

 

Thanks so much for the references concerning D's interest in astrology and
the occult. I will check them asap. Mindscape has been waiting on my shelf
for some time. I remember that Clea has her horoscope made every day, but Da
Capo's tale seems to have slipped out of my memory. I know that Henry Miller
was quite a fan of astrology so reading their correspondence will probably
throw some light on that side of L.D.

 

Good luck with your preparations for the Centenary!!! I will of course keep
you posted about events related to Dark Labyrinth.

 

Best regards

Meta

 

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From: ilds-bounces at lists.uvic.ca [mailto:ilds-bounces at lists.uvic.ca] On
Behalf Of Charles Sligh
Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 3:13 PM
To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca
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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Charles L. Sligh
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University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
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