Balthazar by Lawrence Durrell

Author:Lawrence Durrell [Durrell, Lawrence]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Literary, Classics, Sagas
ISBN: 9788435000123
Google: T5ujOwAACAAJ
Amazon: B001G8WR7Y
Publisher: Edhasa
Published: 1975-01-15T06:00:00+00:00

I suppose that in all this Justine had surrendered to me only one

of the many selves she possessed and inhabited — to this timid and

scholarly lover with chalk on his sleeve!

Where must one look for justifications? Only I think to the facts

themselves; for they might enable me to see now a little further

into the central truth of this enigma called ‘love’. I see the image

of it receding and curling away from me in an infinite series like

the waves of the sea; or, colder than a dead moon, rising up over

the dreams and illusions I fabricated from it — but like the real

moon, always keeping one side of the truth hidden from me, the

nether side of a beautiful dead star. My ‘love’ for her, Melissa’s

‘love’ for me, Nessim’s ‘love’ for her, her ‘love’ for Pursewarden —

there should be a whole vocabulary of adjectives with which to

qualify the noun — for no two contained the same properties; yet

all contained the one indefinable quality, one common unknown

in treachery. Each of us, like the moon, had a dark side — could

turn the lying face of ‘unlove’ towards the person who most loved

and needed us. And just as Justine used my love, so Nessim used

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