Word: lanterns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BLUE LANTERN by Colette. 161 pages. Farrar, Straus...
...look, feel, wonder, accept, live. For all her 81 years she obeyed that injunction with an immense, daylight sense of reality and a pagan delight in the sensuous experiences that delivered the world to her mind and to the blue note paper on which she recorded it. The Blue Lantern, written between 1946 and 1948 and now translated into English for the first time, is Colette's last major work-a moving but unsentimental record of how it was with a poet of the senses whose senses were failing...
Scratched Belly. What is fascinating in The Blue Lantern is the way Colette's belief in the unity of all tangible things served to enlarge her shrunken world. Even the fire in the grate becomes "my guest and the work of my hands; like every other animal it enjoys having its belly scratched from underneath...
During those years beneath the blue lantern, Colette held court much as Proust did in his cork-lined room. Her blue eyes ringed with kohl, her curls carefully brushed over her immense forehead, she received friends sitting up in bed, nibbling garlic and sipping champagne. But she no longer wished to meet the young: "I dread them. It is in the course of nature for declining strength to be scared of up-and-coming new forces. The children who write me letters lay claim to great timidity. But it is for those of my age to feel timidity, almost...
...scene-setting visions of South Pacific backgrounds. Small wonder. Called The Beach of Falesá, the script was written by Dylan Thomas. In its stagy directions, "a stream foams out of the descending galleries and gardens of the tremendous, verdurous, impenetrable high interior of the island," and a "lantern and the moonlight make the bush all turning shadows that weave to meet and then spin off, that hover overhead and fly away, huge, birdlike, into deeper inextricable dark...