From kpbrook at lincoln.midcoast.com Mon Oct 24 08:26:31 2011 From: kpbrook at lincoln.midcoast.com (kelly brook) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:26:31 -0400 Subject: [ilds] DYING CAMEL Message-ID: Recently I saw a graphic image in ?Time? Magazine -- a center fold page of a camel being sacrificed by the victorious Libyans. I remember reading many years ago in the ?Alexandria Quartet? about a camel being hacked to death ? limb by limb . I write a weekly column for our local newspaper, ?Lincoln County News?. called ? All Four Feet?. After seeing the horror story played out on the pages of ?Time? I remembered the dying camel in one of the quartets. I can?t find it. Can any one help. I?d like to include a quote in my next column thanks so much for you help. Kelly Patton Brook kpbrook at lincoln.midcoast.com Long ago I read the entire ?Quartet? while being confined to bed with the pneumonia . I remember it so well. Every page was a thrill. But that was oh so long ago. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From charles-sligh at utc.edu Mon Oct 24 08:52:21 2011 From: charles-sligh at utc.edu (Charles Sligh) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:52:21 -0400 Subject: [ilds] dying camel Message-ID: <4EA589B5.30001@utc.edu> Cf. /Justine/, Part I > A camel has collapsed from exhaustion in the street outside > the house. It is too heavy to transport to the > slaughterhouse, so a couple of men came with axes and cut it > up there and then in the open street, alive. They hack > through the white flesh - the poor creature looking ever more > pained, more aristocratic, more puzzled as its legs are hacked > off. Finally there is the head still alive, the eyes open, > looking around. Not a scream of protest, not a struggle. The > animal submits like a palm-tree. But for days afterwards the > mud street is soaked in its blood and our bare feet are > printed by the moisture. (Faber 1962: 56) Also, cf. Pursewarden's report from /Mountolive/: > Good, though I, I shall have a look at that; but treading > unwarily I came upon a grotesque scene which I would gladly > have avoided if I had been able. The camels of Narouz were > being cut up for the feast. Poor things, they knelt there > peacefully with their forelegs folded under them like cats > while a horde of men attacked them with axes in the > moonlight. My blood ran cold, yet I could not tear myself > away from this extraordinary spectacle. The animals made no > move to avoid the blows, uttered no cries as they were > dismembered. The axes bit into them, as if their great bodies > were made of cork, sinking deep under every thrust. Whole > members were being hacked off as painlessly, it seemed, as > when a tree is pruned. The children were dancing about in the > moonlight picking up the fragments and running off with them > into the lighted town, great gobbets of bloody meat. The > camels stared hard at the moon and said nothing. Off came the > legs, out came the entrails; lastly the heads would topple > under the axe like statuary and lie there in the sand with > open eyes. The men doing the axing were shouting and > bantering as they worked. A huge soft carpet of black blood > spread into the dunes around the group and the barefoot boys > carried the print of it back with them into the township. I > felt frightfully ill of a sudden and retired back to the > lighted quarter for a drink; and sitting on a bench watched > the passing show for a while to recover my nerve. (Faber 1962: > 487 - 488) -- ******************************************** Charles L. Sligh Assistant Professor Department of English University of Tennessee at Chattanooga charles-sligh at utc.edu ******************************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From godshawl at ucmail.uc.edu Mon Oct 24 08:59:39 2011 From: godshawl at ucmail.uc.edu (Godshalk, William (godshawl)) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:59:39 -0400 Subject: [ilds] dying camel In-Reply-To: <4EA589B5.30001@utc.edu> References: <4EA589B5.30001@utc.edu> Message-ID: <94B18F18BF859846A11A82A6166B6C420209053E92AF@UCMAILBE2.ad.uc.edu> W. L. Godshalk * Department of English * * University of Cincinnati* * Stellar Disorder * OH 45221-0069 * * ________________________________________ From: ilds-bounces at lists.uvic.ca [ilds-bounces at lists.uvic.ca] On Behalf Of Charles Sligh [charles-sligh at utc.edu] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 11:52 AM To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca Subject: [ilds] dying camel Cf. Justine, Part I A camel has collapsed from exhaustion in the street outside the house. It is too heavy to transport to the slaughterhouse, so a couple of men came with axes and cut it up there and then in the open street, alive. They hack through the white flesh - the poor creature looking ever more pained, more aristocratic, more puzzled as its legs are hacked off. Finally there is the head still alive, the eyes open, looking around. Not a scream of protest, not a struggle. The animal submits like a palm-tree. But for days afterwards the mud street is soaked in its blood and our bare feet are printed by the moisture. (Faber 1962: 56) Also, cf. Pursewarden's report from Mountolive: Good, though I, I shall have a look at that; but treading unwarily I came upon a grotesque scene which I would gladly have avoided if I had been able. The camels of Narouz were being cut up for the feast. Poor things, they knelt there peacefully with their forelegs folded under them like cats while a horde of men attacked them with axes in the moonlight. My blood ran cold, yet I could not tear myself away from this extraordinary spectacle. The animals made no move to avoid the blows, uttered no cries as they were dismembered. The axes bit into them, as if their great bodies were made of cork, sinking deep under every thrust. Whole members were being hacked off as painlessly, it seemed, as when a tree is pruned. The children were dancing about in the moonlight picking up the fragments and running off with them into the lighted town, great gobbets of bloody meat. The camels stared hard at the moon and said nothing. Off came the legs, out came the entrails; lastly the heads would topple under the axe like statuary and lie there in the sand with open eyes. The men doing the axing were shouting and bantering as they worked. A huge soft carpet of black blood spread into the dunes around the group and the barefoot boys carried the print of it back with them into the township. I felt frightfully ill of a sudden and retired back to the lighted quarter for a drink; and sitting on a bench watched the passing show for a while to recover my nerve. (Faber 1962: 487 - 488) -- ******************************************** Charles L. Sligh Assistant Professor Department of English University of Tennessee at Chattanooga charles-sligh at utc.edu ******************************************** From godshawl at ucmail.uc.edu Mon Oct 24 09:08:18 2011 From: godshawl at ucmail.uc.edu (Godshalk, William (godshawl)) Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:08:18 -0400 Subject: [ilds] DYING CAMEL In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <94B18F18BF859846A11A82A6166B6C420209053E92B0@UCMAILBE2.ad.uc.edu> This is certainly an example of postmodern fragmentation. Humpty-Dumpty had a great loss -- like Jake's thing. Bill W. L. Godshalk * Department of English * * University of Cincinnati* * Stellar Disorder * OH 45221-0069 * * ________________________________________ From: ilds-bounces at lists.uvic.ca [ilds-bounces at lists.uvic.ca] On Behalf Of kelly brook [kpbrook at lincoln.midcoast.com] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 11:26 AM To: ilds at lists.uvic.ca Subject: [ilds] DYING CAMEL Recently I saw a graphic image in ?Time? Magazine -- a center fold page of a camel being sacrificed by the victorious Libyans. I remember reading many years ago in the ?Alexandria Quartet? about a camel being hacked to death ? limb by limb . I write a weekly column for our local newspaper, ?Lincoln County News?. called ? All Four Feet?. After seeing the horror story played out on the pages of ?Time? I remembered the dying camel in one of the quartets. I can?t find it. Can any one help. I?d like to include a quote in my next column thanks so much for you help. Kelly Patton Brook kpbrook at lincoln.midcoast.com Long ago I read the entire ?Quartet? while being confined to bed with the pneumonia . I remember it so well. Every page was a thrill. But that was oh so long ago. From james.d.gifford at gmail.com Wed Oct 26 11:16:55 2011 From: james.d.gifford at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:16:55 -0700 Subject: [ilds] Fwd: Re: [Msa-discuss] info on Lawrence Durrell In-Reply-To: <4EA81F36.4090702@email.unc.edu> References: <4EA81F36.4090702@email.unc.edu> Message-ID: <4EA84E97.90508@gmail.com> Hello all, This message just came through the MSA listserv. I'm forwarding it to the ILDS listserv and am copying Dr. Artinian on this message. I hope we can help him out -- I'll forward my own response to the list to avoid further duplication. Best, James -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Msa-discuss] info on Lawrence Durrell Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:54:46 -0400 From: Erin Carlston To: msa-discuss at jhupress.jhu.edu Sorry, I typed the email in wrong. It's rartinian at hotmail.com Erin Carlston wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > Professor Emeritus Robert Artinian is looking for specialists on > Durrell to answer some questions (see below). Please respond privately > to him at ratinian at hotmail.com. Thanks, > > Erin Carlston > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: RE: Dreyfus cartoon > Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:46:39 -0400 > From: Robert Artinian > To: > References: > ,<4EA5C98E.7030703 at email.unc.edu> > ,<4EA76818.8070307 at email.unc.edu> > ,<4EA814CC.50101 at email.unc.edu> > > > > >In particular, I'm trying to find out if there is a Lawrence Durrell > foundation, or library, that houses Durrell documents and memorabilia. > > Many, many thanks! > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ******************************************************* > Erin G. Carlston > Associate Professor > Department of English and Comparative Literature > CB #3520 > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520 > (919) 962-4037 > ******************************************************* > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Msa-discuss mailing list > Msa-discuss at chaos.press.jhu.edu > http://chaos.press.jhu.edu/mailman/listinfo/msa-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: Attached Message Part URL: From james.d.gifford at gmail.com Wed Oct 26 11:19:02 2011 From: james.d.gifford at gmail.com (James Gifford) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:19:02 -0700 Subject: [ilds] [Msa-discuss] info on Lawrence Durrell In-Reply-To: <4EA81F36.4090702@email.unc.edu> References: <4EA81EC9.3020800@email.unc.edu> <4EA81F36.4090702@email.unc.edu> Message-ID: <4EA84F16.7040804@gmail.com> Dear Dr. Artinian, I'm the president of the International Lawrence Durrell Society. You can find out more about us online: http://www.lawrencedurrell.org This next year is the Durrell Centenary, so we're organizing a larger conference in London through the British Library and Goodenough College, if you might be interested. We also hold an annual Society panel at the Louisville Conference on 20th Century Literature each February. If you're looking for libraries, perhaps to donate materials, there are a few archival centers in Europe, Canada, and the USA. Perhaps if you could let me know a bit more, I can help you with specific details. Best regards, James On 26/10/11 7:54 AM, Erin Carlston wrote: > Sorry, I typed the email in wrong. It's rartinian at hotmail.com > > Erin Carlston wrote: >> Dear colleagues, >> >> Professor Emeritus Robert Artinian is looking for specialists on >> Durrell to answer some questions (see below). Please respond privately >> to him at ratinian at hotmail.com. Thanks, >> >> Erin Carlston >> >> >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: RE: Dreyfus cartoon >> Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:46:39 -0400 >> From: Robert Artinian >> To: >> References: >> ,<4EA5C98E.7030703 at email.unc.edu> >> ,<4EA76818.8070307 at email.unc.edu> >> ,<4EA814CC.50101 at email.unc.edu> >> >> >> >> >In particular, I'm trying to find out if there is a Lawrence Durrell >> foundation, or library, that houses Durrell documents and memorabilia. >> >> Many, many thanks! >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> >> ******************************************************* >> Erin G. Carlston >> Associate Professor >> Department of English and Comparative Literature >> CB #3520 >> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill >> Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3520 >> (919) 962-4037 >> ******************************************************* >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Msa-discuss mailing list >> Msa-discuss at chaos.press.jhu.edu >> http://chaos.press.jhu.edu/mailman/listinfo/msa-discuss >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Msa-discuss mailing list > Msa-discuss at chaos.press.jhu.edu > http://chaos.press.jhu.edu/mailman/listinfo/msa-discuss