Malcolm Lowry Dérive: Many a watering hole was to be frequented by Malcolm during the Vancouver era. The Niagara (now Ramada) was a favored haunt down on Pender St West, only blocks from the Carnegie Library where he and Margerie borrowed and read.
Legion
At first I never looked on them as horrors;
But one day I was drinking hard near sunset,
And suddenly saw the world as a giant prison,
Ruled by tossing moose-heads, with hand mirrors,
And heard the voice of the idiot speak at dawning,
And since that time have dwelt beside the ocean.
-from Selected Poems by Malcolm Lowry
The Carnegie Library as it was before the modification set in. (CVA)
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