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John David Morley

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805:"When Boon knelt on the tatami in his cold bare room (for some reason the cold had a beneficial effect on shodo) and began to prepare for his calligraphical exercises, images of the ritual performance of seppuku would spontaneously come to his mind. Tense, a little excited, like a coiled spring, he mentally went through the motions of the strokes he intended to put down on paper, waiting until he was sure what we wanted and for the moment when he could do it. Now – and without thinking that he had already made up his mind to begin he found the brush suddenly dropping down onto the paper, almost of its own accord. The tip of the brush struck the paper with a slight jar. With a sense of shock he watched it cut a dense black swathe on the blank paper, irreversibly, he could no longer draw back. His pent feelings were released and began to flow down the page in the wake of the glossy ink." 33: 1269: 1337: 846:, the latter an emergency operation conducted by a doctor who declared his patient to be "a medical miracle". "When I sit down and get seriously into a book, my pulse rate rises considerably," Morley once said. "You cannot live a safe life and an interesting one in this profession. Writing is a frightening business." 1266: 1319: 893: 567:, Hugh Hebert singled out the identity issue. "Thomas N. never uses the word 'I', and that disappearance of the personal pronoun is also an important thread in Morley's essay on the Japanese language," Hebert noted of a theme common to Morley's first three books. "In the 782:
The idea of writing involving a restive, dangerous commitment on the part of the writer is apparent in Morley's work. Any catharsis found in the act of storytelling seems linked to the inherent risks involved, as evidenced by Boon's descriptions of
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across vast tracts of ocean... from these and many more images and experiences emerges a poignant kind of personal spirituality which leads Daniel to a new understanding of his own humanity." As the author and translator Suzanne Ruta noted in
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suddenly, a third of the way through, turned into a first person narrative – Morley went back and wrote it all as 'I'. Thomas N. is a youth without qualities, a large zero in which the people around can write their own ideas."
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Morley's novels revolve around themes of love, loss, the quest for identity and the journey into the unknown. Almost, if not all, involve a protagonist's assimilation into an unfamiliar culture, be it Japan in
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s reporter "if he started out with nine lives, how many does he think he has left?", Morley answered: "Four". His numerous close calls included a 1973 skiing accident (in which he broke both legs, suffered an
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Informed by the specter of the post-war years and the era of division in Germany, the unnerving bleakness of certain of Morley's earlier books (the stark prison sequences of
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magazine as a man defined "by his compulsion to ride his adrenaline", Morley, on several occasions, came close to death while discovering his fiction. Indeed, when asked by
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are emblematic of unusually happy, tender interminglings between three human beings united by mutual affection. "Morley’s observing eye," wrote
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to John David Morley of 24 October 2007, in the John David Morley collection at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University.
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within the tripartite love affair between the "drifter" and sometime physicist Frank, the photographer Wilma Pfrumpter, whose peculiar gift of
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In 1973, Morley was awarded a three-year scholarship by the Japanese Ministry of Culture to study at the Language Research Institute of
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twelve years later: "A remarkable feat of imagination and sheer narrative energy. What Morley has achieved is the apotheosis of the
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amid an extended household of Malays, Javanese, Chinese and Indians, later commemorated by his parents in their memoirs.
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The third and youngest child of the artist and sculptor Patricia Morley (née Booth) and John Arthur Elwell Morley, a
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Morley published one collection of journalism and ten works of fiction, of which the last,
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between lovers is also a common feature of Morley's works, notably in
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From 1979-2000 Morley worked as a researcher and interpreter for the
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where his father was helping to administrate the transition from
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Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center: Literary Collections
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in the deep. This trope attains a new dimension, though, in
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in 1969, Morley received a call from a family friend,
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My Other Family: An Artist-Wife in Singapore, 1946-48
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and was on life-support for a week), a 1995 bout of
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Index

JDV Morley in seas off Lamalera, 2002
Singapore
Munich
Germany
Novelist
Fiction
Philosophical
Travel literature
Pictures from the Water Trade
In The Labyrinth
The Case of Thomas N.
The Feast of Fools
The Anatomy Lesson
Destiny, or The Attraction of Affinities
Journey to the End of the Whale
Passage
The Book of Opposites
Ella Morris
District Officer
Colonial Service
Singapore
Malay
culture shock
Malaya
Gold Coast
British colonial rule
Ghana
St George's School
Clifton College
Merton College, Oxford

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