Gutted Arcades of the Past Update

My Gutted Arcades of the Past project continues to grow - I have passed the 300 posts mark with a huge amount of work still to be posted.

I am still making new discoveries about Malc's life and work which mean continual updates to Gutted Arcades. My latest discovery is the exact route Lowry took on his 1927 voyage to the Far East on board the Blue Funnel ship Pyrrhus. This has provided many clues to references in Malc's work especially in Ultramarine. I have now completed several posts on the ports he visited in 1927 - the most recent being on Kobe and Keelung:

http://guttedarcades.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/kobe-japan.html

http://guttedarcades.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/keelung.html

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Gutted Arcades of The Past Update

I may have been neglecting Malc on my 19th Hole Blog but I have been busy over on my Gutted Arcades of The Past blog unravelling Malc's early work and life.

I have passed the 200 posts mark on Gutted Arcades of The Past with plenty more to come. Recent posts have included a breakdown of Malc's references to his time in France in 1926 and 1933/34 plus details of those trips; a further breakdown of his 1931 trip to Norway and the beginnings of my research into the many literary allusions in Ultramarine.

Gutted Arcades of the Past

Gutted Arcades of the Past is an on-going project that I have been working on since 2009.

The project is an attempt to create an encyclopaedia of Malcolm Lowry’s early life and work from 1909 to 1934. The cut off date of 1934 was chosen as a symbolic one reflecting him turning his back on Europe for the New World leaving Southampton on 28th July 1934 for New York aboard the Aquitania.

I have now decided to start sharing my work in the form of a blog to sit alongside my main Lowry blog Malcolm Lowry @ The Nineteenth Hole.

Gutted Arcades of the Past will evolve as my research continues but the biggest impact in the future for the project is what will be revealed on publication of Lowry’s re-discovered manuscript of his novel In Ballast to the White Sea