Under the Volcano

[rich]

a kindred soul, that mr lowry

For Malcolm Lowry

>From your barstool
made of  horse-headed hells
was forged the aching bone splendor of naked Canadian daughters;
secluded forest spring waters

a god's love for pariah dogs



On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> A great novel.
>
> The Kabbalah plays an important role in it. Not the Madonna kind of
> Kabbalah, I suspect, but certainly the Gershom Sholem kind.
>
> Thomas
>
> Am 19.02.2014 14:45, schrieb alice malice:
>
>> There the bird was still, a long-winged dark furious shape, a little
>> world of fierce despairs and dreams, and memories of floating high above
>> Popocatepetl, mile on mile, to drop through the wilderness and alight,
>> watching, in the timberline ghosts of ravaged mountain trees. With
>> hurried quivering hands Yvonne began to unfasten the cage. The bird
>> fluttered out of it and alighted at her feet, hesitated, took flight to
>> the roof of El Petate, then abruptly flew off through the dusk. . . up
>> soaring, with a sudden cleaving of pinions into the deep dark blue pure
>> sky above, in which at that moment appeared one star.
>>
>> On this day in 1947 Malcolm Lowry's /Under the Volcano/ was published.
>>
>> http://val.fm/everything-merges-with-the-night-brian-eno-mp3/
>>
>>
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