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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Editor's note: My cat is currently (not) helping me with a Lowry presentation I'm working on.

Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Editor's note: Received @helentookey.bsky.social latest Lowry offering today. It's always a good day when you are able to pull some Lowryian item from the mailbox..

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

But the stars by their very being consoled her.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Today is a special one for us, the "lunatic admirers" of Lowry (Firminists). I ask that you pause for a moment today, and reflect on that most special book, whose "quality is too rare to be successful".

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

"Besides after a while one begins to feel, if the man can hold his liquor as well as that why shouldn't he drink?"

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

[F]or some reason this simple fact appeared to make these two good people-for nearly all people are good who walk in parks-very happy again.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

...but still the old bandstand stands where no band stands.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Taken at "Lieben", Bowen Island. Left to right are Reg Watters (Canadian editor and anthologist), Malcolm, Margerie, and Earle Birney. July 1947. Special Collections Library, UBC - BC 1614/25.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

"Come amigo, throw away your mind," Dr. Vigil said behind him.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

The spectators laughed and cheered, though Hugh, really indistinguishable from a Mexican now, looked serious, even grim. He leaned back, holding on determinedly, with feet splayed, heels knocking the sweaty flanks. The charros galloped across the arena.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I have lived only nineteen years and all of them more or less badly. --letter to Conrad Aiken, 1929.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

And it seemed to me that until I knew her I had lived my whole life in darkness.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Black geometry angled against dark skies.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Nothing is altered, and in spite of God's mercy I am still alone. (Watercolor of Lowry by Arturo Espinosa, May 15, 2012)

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

...the old bastard would merely grin... 1979 letter from Markson discussing Lowry

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Editor's note: Checking out the Bluecoat Lowry page, and while I have seen this Lowry picture no less than a 1000 times, it's only the first time that I notice a ship in front of his face! Margerie and Malcolm were always taking trick shots with their camera. So it's not that surprising to see this.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I began to feel sorry for myself, and rather drunk.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

[T]he Consul, with scarce a tremor now, found a pair of dark glasses and put them on.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Draft page of In Ballast to the White Sea.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Lowry describing to his editor on what his yet to be published novel (Under the Volcano) is truly about.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

And this is how I sometimes think of myself, as a great explorer who has discovered some extraordinary land from which he can never return to give his knowledge to the world: but the name of this land is hell.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Margerie "in front of Historic Inn where American Revolution was plotted, Fredricksburg, Virginia." February 1947. Courtesy of UBC Library, Special Books and Collections. BC-1614-904

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

And when they slowed down, the fallen leaves in the forest seemed to make even the ground glow and burn with light. Photos courtesy of UBC Library, Special Books and Collections.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Savannah, GA. 1947. Courtesy of UBC Library, Rare Books and Collections. (BC-1614-023)

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Niagara-on-the-Lake, March 1947. Courtesy of UBC Library, Special Collections and Rare Books.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

"Expelled at gunpoint!" Arriving in LA after being deported from Mexico. May 1946. Courtesy of UBC Library, Rare Books and Collections.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Lowry on the lawn of the Parliament buildings, Victoria, BC. Summer 1946. Courtesy of UBC Library, Rare Books and Collections. BC-1614-846

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Forest Path to the Spring is a beautiful coda..

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Editor's note: My own personal collection (obsession?) of Lowry's works, academia, and even the books he himself was interested in. The collection doesn't include papers, periodicals, and other miscellaneous items.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

“Adiós," she added in Spanish, "I have no house only a shadow. But whenever you are in need of a shadow, my shadow is yours."

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

P.S. We are going to live in the Lake District in Grasmere for awhile not because it reminds one of Wordsworth so much but because if we half shut our eyes we may be able to imagine we're back on Burrard Inlet! --End of letter to Ralph Gustafson, 1957.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Popocatepetl towered through the window, its immense flanks partly hidden by rolling thunderheads; its peak blocking the sky, it appeared almost right overhead, the barranca, the Farolito, directly beneath it. Under the volcano!

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The howling pariah dogs, the cocks that herald dawn all night, the drumming, the moaning that will be found later white plumage huddled on telegraph wires in back gardens or fowl roosting in apple trees, the eternal sorrow that never sleeps of great Mexico.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Margerie and Malcolm during their stay at Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. October 1944

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

They were embracing, or so it all but seemed, passionately: somewhere, out of the heavens, a swan, transfixed, plummeted to earth.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Editor's note: Possibly the first time that Tay Tay & UTV were ever tied together.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

[H]olding the glass, he drank cautiously, carefully postponing the problem soon to be raised by its emptiness.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The number of false starts and hen tracks on the page I have made had left me half dead with discouragement.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Rare photo of Margerie and Malcolm's shadow, circa March 1946, Mexico. Courtesy of the UBC Archives

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

"...But if I ever start to drink mescal again, I'm afraid, yes, that would be the end," the Consul said dreamily.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The back door was open and they could see through into a dirty, dark kitchen with dirty dishes and bits of stale bread and food on the floor and sink.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

They were joking. But the Consul was not joking. His second mescal had become serious.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

High overhead sailed white sculpturings of clouds, like billowing concepts in the brain of Michelangelo.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It came sailing out of nowhere, the child's funeral...

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Christmas 1949 "We once observed two ravens mating upon a Friday the thirteenth, with no ill effects"

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Both advertisements...were illuminated by neon lights against which the raindrops seemed to hang, large, luminous, and menacing.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

He watched the clouds: dark swift horses surging up the sky. A black storm breaking out of its season! That was what love was like, he thought; love which came too late.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

[O]f hundreds of miles behind this childhood dream of heaven, and rolling valleys, the dream of the sailor sleeping on the poop in the vast violet of the Indian Ocean as it deepens at noon.

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Malcolm Lowry @malcolmlowry.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

The Farolito (1984) www.juliancooper.co.uk/UNDER_VOLCAN...

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