[ilds] Wordspinner

[Bruce Redwine]

I guess you could also say the same about Shakespeare, who also wrote for money and got rich at it.  So I guess there's no need for any secondary material.  I don't think that Durrell divided his time between being an avaricious hack and a "serious" writer and that there's no connection between the two.

Bruce



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> On Mar 19, 2016, at 5:35 AM, mail at durrelllibrarycorfu.org wrote:
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> All this talk of a green finger-stall prompts me to suggest that the green-ness of the thing may have originated in LD's sense of his Irishness. The green finger-stall, on an upraised finger, might suggest rectal penetration which would accord perfectly with the idea of his fascination with dirt/mud. An Irish suppository up the British arse, which he DID specifically refer to.
> I'm only joking of course but jokes seem to be the only recourse in the face of such pointless waffle.
> LD was a wordspinner. He wrote for money. So whatever words were to hand at the time had to do service. He was NOT trying to say anything profound about mud-bricks, just using what he had (or hadn't) seen, in an article for which he was going to be paid much-needed cash.
> Admittedly he did espouse and entertain ideas (I've tried to show as much in my book) but these were kept for his 'serious' work and let's remember that at the outset he sharply distinguished between 'Durrell' and 'Norden' (from which Miller dissuaded him). Norden wrote for money, Durrell wrote as a quest. Let's not confuse the two.
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