The Psychological Orientation Towards Growth in Lawrence Durrell's "The Alexandria Quartet" Page: 132
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presence of death out there as a normal feature of
life--only in full acceleration so to speak--has given me
an inkling of Life Everlasting! And there was no other
way I could have grasped it, damn it" (C, p. I83). Keats
continues, "I look around that...battlefield at night,
. . . and I say: 'All this had to be brought about so
that poor Johnny Keats could grow into a man"* (C, p.
182). Keats concludes his speech on death and war and
his personal maturation with the comment, "Life only has
its full meaning to those who co-opt death!" (C, p. 183).
Recalling how he and Clea united in kisses while the
"whirlwind" of war raged outside, Darley writes, "It
would have been good to die at any moment then, for
love and death had somewhere joined hands" (C, p. 96).
When Clea discovers that near Narouz's little island,
under the water, "There are dead men down there," and
when Darley and Clea later learn that these are the
bodies of seven Greek sailors buried at sea, Darley
writes, "It will sound strange, perhaps, to describe
how quickly we got used to these silent visitants of
the pool. Within a matter of days we had accommodated
them, accorded them a place of their own. We swam
between them to reach the outer water, bowing ironically
to their bent attentive heads. It was not to flout death--
it was rather that they had become friendly and appropriate
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Fordham, Glenn Wayne, Jr. The Psychological Orientation Towards Growth in Lawrence Durrell's "The Alexandria Quartet", dissertation, May 1981; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330626/m1/138/?q=war: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .