Malcolm Lowry
Malcolm Lowry
Clarence Malcolm Lowrywas an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano, which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 July 1909
english-poet novel simply skip
The novel can be read simply as a story which you can skip if you want. It can be read as a story you will get more out of if you don't skip.
horse heart opportunity
The Consul felt a pang. Ah, to have a horse, and gallop away, singing, to someone you loved perhaps, into the heart of all the simplicity and peace in the world; was that not like the opportunity afforded man by life itself? Of course not. Still, just for a moment, it had seemed that it was.
house shadow needs
Adiós," she added in Spanish, "I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours." "Thank you." "Sank you." "Not sank you, Señora Gregorio, thank you." "Sank you.
couple beer civilization
Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
sometimes
I like prefaces. I read them. Sometimes I do not read any further.
lonely hands light
There was no mistaking, even in the uncertain light, the hand, half crabbed, half generous, and wholly drunken, of the Consul himself, the Greek e's, the flying buttresses of d's, the t's like lonely wayside crosses save where they crucified an entire word.