Bad news down the toilet
A kindly act by a local girl helping Lawrence Durrell with his housekeeping during his idyllic two year stay on...
Poems for my family 004 – Durrell
Listening time: under 5 minutes.
Durrell has long been a favourite writer and poet. When I first read his Alexandria...
On seeing and sensing
Durrell seems to be seeking a subtle way to convey the perception of a view, before suddenly landing a pin-hole...
Hangover face
Wonderful way to describe the face of a hungover man, though no doubt he felt every bit as bad as...
As homely as
What comes to mind? Apple pie? Cup of tea? Kitchen table? I found Durrell's homely simile as charming as surprising. ...
My kind of typewriter
This extraordinary piece of engineering allowing a polyglot to spin between four languages and keyboards. Â Manual typewriters, mind, not bits...
Of sound and silence
A startling description of silence, likened to emulsified sound.Â
Silence, after all, is only sound in emulsion.Â
...
Civilization, seriously
What really holds civilization together? Women, according to someone Lawrence Durrell once tussled with. But is this as glorious a...
Fine with wine
Gideon is one of a group of lively friends of Durrell during a wonderful two year stretch when the Brits...
On memorizing poetry
A few years ago I wrote this piece on memorizing poetry. I still memorize poems and regularly revisit those I...
As cold as …
A cool simile for coldness, since jelly by its nature needs to be kept so. See also a superb
And this is my epic…
Listening time: under 4 minutes.
A marvelous account of a butcher bursting in to Lawrence Durrell's office during...
Love writingredux.com? Â Enjoy our sister sites:
www.foolsareeverywhere.com  I   www.nuannaarpoq.com  I  www.spyderceleste.com  Â
© Beatrice Otto 2023 - design & content unless otherwise stated - all rights reserved