A8 - Friday, October 26, 1984 - North Shore News eeing North Van alcolm Lowrry’s eyes O THE PICTURE HOUSE to see Under the Volcano, the film of one of my favorite books. itis a portrait of the tragic drunk thal was Malcolm Lowry. {tas well done, and tunny- Ah, sad Go and see ot at comes this way. ft will make vou that we North Shore dwellers missed Knowing what a lite of hap piness now opened betore us The first frosts) came and there was silver drittwood on the beach, and when it grew Tegrel at the time that one of the too cold to swim we took world’s) great writers had walks through the torest passed this way where ice crackled the rock candy under our teet, and Powry was 4a bum, of sometimes the fog trove on course A drunken bum who the trees and the forest died in his own vomit after became a crystal forest. And throwing a quart of gin down alt might, when we opened the his throat and taking some window, trom the lamps sleeping pills Some say tt was within, our shadows were suicide No one will ever know for sure What we know for sureis that he was a word- master and a genius € nder the \ olcuno was his greatest work Tt took him 10 years fo write it, and most ot wo owas done down on that Dollarton beach that is now part of Cates Park. To my wavy of thinking, all of his books were good, although some who have never written a memorable line themselves projected Out to sea, on the fog, against the might, and sometimes they were huge, menacing. One night, coming across the porch trom. the woodshed with a lantern in one hand and a load of wood under the other arm, | saw my shadow, gigantic, the logs of wood as big as a cottin, and this shadow seemed tor a moment the glowermng ermn- bodiment of all that threaten. ed us, ves, Doug Collins “L seem to see us living in some northern country, of mountains and hills and blue water, Our house is built on an inlet and ofe evening we even a projection are standing, happy im one claim tl was the only worth: ot that dark, chaotic side of another, on the balcony otf while thing he ever did myself, my feroctous destruc this house, looking over the Perhaps they never pot five ipnordnee water There are sawmills around to treading The Forest I have often prone te the halt hidden by trees beyond, Path to the Spring to sou path oand wandercd just and under the hills on the haven't read it, dose and you Where the squatters’ cabin other side of the inlet. what will see that a local scene that most of us would consider to be unexceptional has been mnamortalized It Gontains Passages like this was that be cabled A ricarrias There looks Ike an of retiners. on Walk but Iv sottened and rendered there ts no plaque to mark tas beautiful by the distance 7" Read The Forest Puth and then we stand on that isa Lowry spot ta bafearid the describes The place this way and ES mailbox > <| Call me ‘doll’, Dear bditor boowas Collins’ Ort teparding those inadividuaals of Media Watch whoyottten t to obemp does” Tbs cer Doug! amused by column oat [orp tardy amore tatterirg than other Cobscenibies rebetringe ale newly tor Pertrades {ne 3 When bo owas vrowrnp up yor? yore our family tad a very spe ciaa oO ih one?’ frictcd ‘Tdetdy lads bey oon N 39 preted ate clderiy: Lady \ C ko ie) a ero CW \ marie ot Dell © atten al NM ccet ame the Co brebdreti oR rre we the \ So ao 2% ‘ NAuieitic Ldoll bore eet hires ot nee wie! this wate het feab thar 6 4 po Snot 7 Hie Rory adase boast ctlair ty ta oy N oro added ter tee ohartrt anel age A vw ” (a y VO \ peal pve Ak ) \ [coup Voor tay th rine cas ‘ ra \ doll anv tine | ve \ ye an’ vy’ ‘ Nuney Hunter yee my North Vancouver ‘ Ww " Vy aaen to . 4 a\ed Unilateral me ism pd geet us ona ' won ‘t work oe a4 1th . . 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