Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Justine's question

Way back in volume one of the Alexandria Quartet there is moment where Darley and Justine have hurt all sorts of people through affairs of the heart. Justine muses:
Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged?
Lawrence Durrell probably wouldn't like this answer but some of us would say the place he was hanged was Golgotha. Because if by "invented the human heart" we mean, Who gave us the capacity to love the way we do?", that is the answer.

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