Malcolm Lowry Dérive: The Caroline Court @ 1058 Nelson St. Apt #73. The Lowry's lived here during the winter of 1954. A grand structure nestled in the sublime village of West End Vancouver.
Malcolm would have staggered up and/or down some nights and in the mornings may have carried manuscripts to the post office; editors all in waiting.
"For the Love of Dying
The tortures of hell are stern, their fires burn fiercely.
Yet vultures turn against the air more beautifully
than seagulls float downwind in cool sunlight,
or fans in asylums spin a loom of fate
for hope which never ventured up so high
as life’s deception, astride the vulture’s flight.
If death can fly, just for the love of flying,
what might not life do, for the love of dying?”
- Selected Poems
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