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derangedrhythms · 1 year
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So tilting into darkness go we must.
Lawrence Durrell, Selected Poems; from ‘Seferis’
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Josh O'Connor as Lawrence in The Durrells.
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gravity-rainbow · 8 months
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Underneath all his preoccupations with sex, society, religion, etc. — all the staple abstractions which allow the forebrain to chatter — there is, quite simply, a man tortured beyond endurance by the lack of tenderness in the world.
Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet
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entheognosis · 10 months
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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
Lawrence Durrell
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chrisengel · 2 months
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Human character? I imagine that what we call personality may be an illusion, and in thinking of it as a stable thing we are trying to put a lid on a box with no sides. Human beings are really walking question marks — hows and whys and perhapses. Lawrence Durrell
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alesario · 3 months
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Lawrence Durrell
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dk-thrive · 1 year
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I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.
Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Book 1 of The Alexandria Quartet (Faber & Faber, 2020) (via The Vale of Soul Making)
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parfoisennuyeux · 2 months
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From Justine, book one of the Alexandria Quartet. By Lawrence Durrell
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kikenhanna17world · 2 months
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"Like all young men I set out to be a genius,
but mercifully laughter intervened." Lawrence Durrell
~ Lawrence Durrell
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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
Lawrence Durrell
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chrismoulton · 2 years
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How do people fucking read books and not completely destroy them in the process? Taping the spine of the book, individual pages, bending the book all the ways to make it straight again. I don't know how I keep finding pristine used books. You didn't really use the book if it's not destroyed. Books are like cigarettes that you collect the stubs of and sometimes refer back to.
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[my flickr files :: see what I found?]
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"Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?"
— Lawrence Durrell, Justine (The Alexandria Quartet)
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In that warm light the faces of my friends lived and glowed….Freya Stark…Sir Harry Luke…Patrick Leigh Fermor and the Corn Godess, who always arrive when I am on an island, unannounced and whose luggage has always been left at the airport (‘But we’ve brought the wine-the most important thing’)....After a splendid dinner by the fire he starts singing, songs of Crete, Athens, Macedonia. When I go out to refill the ouzo bottle at the little tavern across the way I find the street completely filled with people listening in utter silence and darkness. Everyone seems struck dumb. ‘What is it?’ I say, catching sight of Frangos. ‘Never have I heard of Englishmen singing Greek songs like this!’ Their reverent amazement is touching; it is as if they want to embrace Paddy wherever he goes.
- Lawrence Durrell, Bitter Lemons
Lawrence Durrell and Patrick Leigh Fermor first met while stationed in Cairo in 1942 during the Second World War.  A shared appreciation for good talk, good wine, and Greek culture made the two men fast friends for life, and Durrell came to relish the many subsequent visits from Paddy and Joan Leigh Fermor.  At the Villa Cleobolus on Rhodes, at Bellapaix on Cyprus, and later, at the Mazet Michel - no matter what new address Durrell had taken, he could always look forward to his old friend’s sudden materialisation on his doorstep.
For Paddy Leigh Fermor, the mercurial Larry Durrell proved to be an essential element of Mediterranean life.  He was, Paddy said, “a man who pumped the oxygen back into the air.”
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"Mantenían las cabezas inclinadas, excepto cuando Akkad interrumpía el recitado para comentar algo en tono seco y entrecortado, a menudo con una especie de pasión soterrada que no se correspondía con un comportamiento ordinario. Decía, por ejemplo: 'Cuanto más sabes del hombre, menos puedes tolerar la situación en la que vive bajo el dominio del Príncipe'. Un temible acto de duplicidad había trastornado el orden racional del universo. Más tarde me di cuenta de que eso era lo que quería decir. El intruso, que había sustituido al monarca original, había provocado la confusión en el funcionamiento de la ley cósmica. Desde la llegada del Príncipe Negro, todo tuvo que ser reordenado, entendido de otro modo, reformado; por consiguiente, el conjunto de la realidad. los griegos decían: 'Todo esto es falso pero es bello'. Pero la belleza no es una excusa, la belleza es una trampa. Nosotros decimos: 'Todo esto es falso pero es real'. Mucho más adelante comprendí el significado de estas palabras. Pertenecer a aquel credo sería seguir siendo fiel a la desesperación fundamental de la realidad, comprender por fin y de modo definitivo que no había esperanza, a menos que el Dios usurpador pudiera ser destronado, y no parecía existir la manera de hacer tal cosa. Si hubiera comprendido más cosas en este primer encuentro con los gnósticos, probablemente me habría sentido tan desesperado como, al parecer, lo estaban ellos. La impacabilidad del proceso me habría obsesionado, como llegó a obsesionarme más tarde. Era lo que Akkad llamaba 'la misma muerte de Dios', pues el Príncipe usurpador había desplazado al rey original, cuyo reino había sido una representación, no de la discordancia en la naturaleza, sino de la armonía y congruencia de la naturaleza. Bajo su dominio había adquirido su forma real el nacimiento y la muerte, el espíritu y la carne, y el animal, el insecto y el hombre estaban unidos en una simbiosis creativa de luz y justicia, como nadie se había atrevido siquiera a imaginar desde el día en que el Príncipe de las Tinieblas ocupó su lugar en el trono".
Monsieur o el Príncipe de las Tinieblas, Lawrence Durrell
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oxcroft · 2 years
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formerlibrarian · 9 months
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Yes, I do have a good-sized Anaïs Nin collection.
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