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Lawrence Durrell · 1957
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Alexandria itself is the true protagonist — desire, memory, and place collapse into a single fever of possession and loss.
erotic-as-power
a sort of mental possession in which the bonds of a ravenous sexuality played the least part
DUR-JUS-RC-031a mania for self-justification … a perpetual flow of ideas pressing upon her mind with the weight of a massive current
DUR-JUS-RC-109she would throw herself into the heart of the mêlée to wound those whom truly she most loved and most admired
DUR-JUS-RC-241belonging
'There's no new land, my friend, no new sea; for the city will follow you, in the same streets you'll wander endlessly'
DUR-JUS-RC-002This city has been built like a dyke to hold back the flood of African darkness … a sort of racial osmosis is going on
DUR-JUS-RC-050self-and-identity
She was revolted by the little gold cross nestled in the hair on his chest … out of shame at such thoughts she became doubly passionate
DUR-JUS-RC-235Illuminates
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