LAWRENCE DURRELL(1912-1990)

You could never bother with the locals,

the people actually living in places like Alexandria

or Avignon. No, you

disliked them, couldn't stand them. Thus,

enter the god-like foreigners on

these 'exotic' stages, to play through the acts

you had written for them. A kind

of literature equivalent of a Near Eastern

bazaar existing in a Hollywood movie

studio, or a couple in a car 'driving'

against a fake, filmed background, detached.

Orientalism of sorts, even in Occitania.

09.10.2017