Perhaps his tragedy is that he is the only normal writer left on earth -- and it is this that adds to his isolation and so too his so sense of guilt.
Malcolm LowryTag: writing
Under the Volcano” embraces everything from Dante to Freud to the cabala. Here it shambles like Cervantes, there it rages like Ahab, and every page of it pulsates on Out of Body Auto-Reply, that style of pure Lowry that points at once backward, to all European literature, and forward, to the mother of all nervous breakdowns.
Malcolm LowryNo se puede vivir sin amar
Malcolm LowryOnly against death does man cry out in vain.
Malcolm LowryFor a time they confronted each other like two mute unspeaking forts.
Malcolm LowryHow, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?
Malcolm LowryChi ha respirato la polvere delle strade del Messico, non troverà più pace in nessun altro paese.
Malcolm LowryInterchangeable ever were the terms of abuse with which the aggressor discredits those about to be ravaged!
Malcolm LowryThe Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the simplicity and peace in the world; was that not like the opportunity afforded man by life itself? Of course not. Still, just for a moment, it had seemed that it was.
Malcolm LowryAnd I'm afraid it really is a jungle too," pursued the Consul, "in fact I expect Rousseau to come riding out of it at any moment on a tiger." "What's that?" Mr Quincey said, frowning in a manner that might have meant: And God never drinks before breakfast either.
"On a tiger," the Consul repeated.
The other gazed at him a moment with the cold sardonic eye of the material world. "I expect so," he said sourly. "Plenty tigers. Plenty elephants too... Might I ask you if the next time you inspect your jungle you'd mind being sick on your own side of the fence?
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