Dorothy in Egypt? The exact nature of the congress is
confusing but adumbrated in Canto 91 where the
Princess sits on Ra's knees and is impregnated by a
cloud of crystal. Something like that.
 
Wayne
 
--- Sarah Graham <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Listmembers,
> Sorry, I can't help with Wayne Pounds' interesting
> question but I have one of my own. The Times
> Literary Supplement recently (July 16th) carried a
> review by Marjorie Perloff of the new ed. of EP/DP's
> 1945-46 letters. In the piece Perloff writes:
>
> '...Olga Rudge, who was to become Ezra's lifelong
> mistress, gave birth to their daughter Mary. Dorothy
> responded in pique by taking a long trip to Egypt
> and came back pregnant.'
>
> Can someone just clarify this for me, because it
> sounds as though DP became pregnant in Egypt,
> possibly without EP's involvement. I didn't get that
> from any of the biographies! I presume it's just the
> way I'm reading it - I expect someone will tell me
> that EP and DP travelled together to Egypt and
> somehow Perloff knows that it was on this trip that
> DP became pregnant. I just found the review
> confusing and wanted to check it out with
> better-qualified Poundians.
>
> Thanks,
> Sarah Graham
>
 
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