Modernist Travel Writing by David Farley

Author:David Farley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Missouri Press

I sold my goods, “liquidated” my belongings, sold my barrels, upon which stood my lamps, put in store my books. The “Luther of Ossington Street” (as the naughty, naughty post-Ninetyish old and young kittens call him) left that ultra-Lutheran spot, he kicked the dust of moralist and immoralist England off his un-Lutheran feet, determined for a while to exchange it against the red dust of the Sand—Wind of the Rio de Oro! (24)

Fresh from the publication of The Apes of God and the controversy that surrounded it, Lewis here seems fatigued by the London literary scene and its petty squabbles, although at the same time this self-presentation is tinged with the paranoia that was such an important element of his self-fashioning. He accuses his detractors—here abstracted to England as a whole—of being both “moralist and immoralist,” as he attempts to remain above the fray that he largely caused. The narrative voice shifts from first person to third person precisely at the moment when he recalls his enemies fixing him with a label. The traces of ill will and mutual recriminations that Lewis obliquely records give us some indication of his feelings about the literary environment in London, feelings that seem not to have been fully purged by the rebarbative satire of The Apes of God.

Having unmoored himself from the London milieu and articulated in part his motivations for traveling, Lewis next describes both his psychic and material preparations for travel:

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