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with his "splendid hippopotamus-hide whip," as when, to
display his skill to Nessim, Narouz "rode forward at a
trot to where some dozen chickens were. . . . Narouz'
arm shot up, the long lash uncurled slowly on the air
and then went rigid with a sudden dull welt of sound,
a sullen thwack, and laughing, the rider dismounted to
pick up the mutilated creature, still warm and
palpitating, its wings half-severed from its body, its
head smashed" (B, pp. 71-72). Pursewarden is to see
Narouz "pick dragon-flies off the flowers at fifteen
paces with fthe whij^J ; later in the desert he ran down
a wild dog and cut it up with a couple of strokes. The
poor creature was virtually dismembered in a couple of
blows, by this toy!" (M, p. 118). For whatever reasons,
Narouz's intellect does not fully develop, and although
he feels "a heavy admiration at the concise way Nessim
abbreviated and expressed his ideas," "Narouz felt these
abstract words fall dully upon his ear, fraught with
meanings he only half-guessed, and though he knew that
they concerned him as much as anyone, they seemed to him
to belong to some rarer world inhabited by sophists or
mathematicians—creatures who would forge and give
utterance to the vague longings and incoherent desires he
felt forming inside him whenever Egypt was mentioned or
the family estates" (B, p. 76).
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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/m1/88/?q=war: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .