This just strikes me as the most entitled white male writer shit ever. A TIBET OF THE MIND?! If these guys were alive and tweeting in 2019 they’d be flayed alive.
“Thinking to have a horoscope of Durrell drawn up, [Miller] asked for details of his birth. Told that he had lived on the borders of Tibet, close to the Forbidden Land, he was thrilled, he said, because he himself was a Chinese at heart. Miller‘s interest soon took Durrell back to his childhood in Darjeeling, and, soon after, he discovered My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Neal, who had gone on foot to Lhasa in 1923. It confirmed his Tibetan ‘ancestry’ and he began to cultivate his ‘Tibetan’ side, claiming he lived in a sort of Tibet of the mind. If Miller was a Chinaman, then he himself was a Tibetan.”
Through the Dark Labyrinth: A Biography of Lawrence Durrell, Gordon Bowers
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