...we were possessed by a desire to communicateideas and experiences which overstepped the range
of thought normal to conversation among ordinary people.
Our intimacy was a strange mental order.
Discovering behind the darkly woven sensuality will be
a friendship so profound that we
shall become bondsmen forever.
...her efforts to achieve herself
led her always towards and not away
from him. The world has no place for this
sort of paradox.
Excerpts from "Justine"
by Lawrence Durrell
The 20th Century's finest fiction writer
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