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Alan Bray
- Apr 20
- 4 min
The Unbearable Inevitability Of Style
Dear friends, I’m back. The vacation was great. We saw the house in Madrid where Cervantes wrote Don Quixote. I do want to announce a...


Alan Bray
- Mar 30
- 4 min
Where'd She Go?
It is near the end of Justine that the reader is shown the “how” of Justine’s disappearance, as well as other plot points previously...


Alan Bray
- Mar 24
- 6 min
My Style Is Ba-Roque
First, an apology for posting this a day late on Friday vs. Thursday. We were away on a trip, and the post was not ready. Great regrets,...


Alan Bray
- Mar 16
- 4 min
Sex And The City - Justine
The history of the city of Alexandria, Egypt is one of frequent conquest by different empires. The British took over in 1881 and remained...


Alan Bray
- Mar 9
- 5 min
Justine
Today, let’s talk about Justine, Lawrence Durrell’s 1957 book that begins his four-novel opus, The Alexandria Quartet. The other novels...