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5 Durrell's analysis of the difference between 'Ulysses' and 'Gerontion' dwells on the contrast between the simple syntax, clear thinking, precision and activity, of the former, in which Ulysses is master of his fate and dominates his world, and the haphazard, ungrammatical passivity of the victim Gerontion who' disclaims any right to be considered a hero'. 6 The effect of Darwinism, in particular, he believes, has been to 'dethrone' man: The English Renaissance 1840-95 41 He was no longer the noblest animal .
For this reason we can recognise in the Heraldic Universe of Lawrence Durrell not only the exasperation and revolt of the young great man taking the moment to throw off indignity, but also the rebellious dandy of manners, mind and morals, who seeks to re-establish, out of the injustice and upheavals of the 1930s, a new republic, in his own compulsion to find the inner landscape where his singular rebellion can give others a new existence. And it is easy to see how, in such a context, it is less important to look for beautiful, flamboyant gestures, than to learn how to recognise those gestures which spring from despair, outraged innocence no longer able to cope with narcissism as a form of relief from a world which is not what it seems.
Furthermore, the naif often displays chivalric qualities, and this points us in the direction of heraldry. Narcissism, Green suggests, 85 is the sexual root of dandyism, particularly in the basic characteristic he stresses of the aesthetic adoration of an older for a younger man. This can best be explained by the following formula: love of self leads to love of others when the self's preoccupations (or aesthetic values) are identified in the other or excited by the other; love of art is the result of mutual preoccupation, where each partner perceives the other as his or her alter-ego and art is seen as both the context which created them and the fruit of their association.