{"id":96171,"date":"2016-03-28T12:56:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T16:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=96171"},"modified":"2016-03-28T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T17:36:12","slug":"ever-affectionately-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/28\/ever-affectionately-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever Affectionately Yours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Two <a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/10666.html\" target=\"_blank\">letters from Iris Murdoch<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_96172\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/queneau-29-october-1949-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96172\" class=\"wp-image-96172\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/queneau-29-october-1949-a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"782\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/queneau-29-october-1949-a.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/queneau-29-october-1949-a-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/queneau-29-october-1949-a-768x1000.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/queneau-29-october-1949-a-786x1024.jpg 786w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-96172\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letter to Raymond Queneau, October 29, 1949, Text below. Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>To Raymond Queneau.\u00a0<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">St Anne\u2019s Society<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Oxford<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">[29 October 1949]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-96179\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-a.jpg\" alt=\"To Raymond Queneau (A)\" width=\"600\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-a.jpg 1374w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-a-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-a-768x425.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-a-1024x567.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know you are very busy but may I nevertheless point out that I haven\u2019t had a letter from you since (I think) July. I know too that I didn\u2019t write for a long time, but I am hoping that you are not cross with me. <em>Vous ne m\u2019en voulez pas<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-a-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-96177\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-a-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-a-copy.jpg 1373w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-a-copy-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-a-copy-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-a-copy-1024x622.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am doing quite a lot of work too\u2014apart from teaching, I mean, which doesn\u2019t count. I hope to get this thesis organised soon. Something on <em>meaning<\/em>, based chez Hegel, bringing in Sartre, refuting Ryle. (Ryle is the reigning professor here. His book on Mind,1 just published, summarises the post-Wittgensteinian empiricism which <em>is <\/em>British philosophy at present. I\u2019ll send you a copy.) [. . .]<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s doing in Paris about peace? I suppose the PC <em>[Le Parti Communiste Fran\u00e7ais (PCF)]<\/em> is organising conferences and so on. But does it extend beyond Communist circles? (Does Sartre lend himself to any such organisation?) Here, regrettably, peace is regarded as a Communist racket. Everyone seems to be becoming madder and madder.<\/p>\n<p>Write to me soon, dear Queneau. Ever affectionately yours<br \/>I<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-96178\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-b.jpg\" alt=\"To Raymond Queneau (B)\" width=\"600\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-b.jpg 1359w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-b-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-b-768x323.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-b-1024x430.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_96173\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/queneau-letters-image-b.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-96177\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-96173\" class=\"wp-image-96173\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/queneau-letters-image-b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/queneau-letters-image-b.jpg 1260w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/queneau-letters-image-b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/queneau-letters-image-b-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/queneau-letters-image-b-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-96173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letter to Raymond Queneau, March 1951. Text below. Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/to-raymond-queneau-a-copy.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-96177\"><br \/><\/a><em>To Raymond Queneau. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>St Anne\u2019s Society, Oxford [13 March 1951]<\/p>\n<p>I notice with surprise and distress that I have owed you a letter since December 28th. Anyway, that is the date inscribed on what I take to be your last letter, now before me. I can\u2019t remember that I have written to you since then, though I did get round to sending you Auden\u2019s <em>Romantic Iconography<\/em> which stern colleagues here say is an irresponsible and unscholarly piece of work. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>Everything has been mild hell here since I last wrote and before that too. A beastly term: I was lecturing, for the first time, an alarming experience (on \u2018Meanings, Descriptions and Thoughts\u2019). Before that I was bothered about trying to marry somebody, but it didn\u2019t come off. Just as well maybe. If I could only stop thinking about marriage maybe I\u2019d get some work done.<\/p>\n<p>If I could see a means of doing it I\u2019d slip over from philosophy into English literature\u2014but this is difficult, probably impossible. (I might take a chair of philosophy at Bloemfontein or Tasmania and there I could do <em>anything <\/em>I suppose.) Next year I shall console myself by lecturing on <em>imagination<\/em>. (I\u2019d like to work on Marxism too, particularly as no one here seems to understand this or care.) When I shall write a novel again I don\u2019t know and this after all is the only important thing.<\/p>\n<p>I doubt if I\u2019ll get across the Channel this year. Short of cash. I\u2019d love to see you (this is always a large part of the point of going abroad). But when I do see you I usually come away with the sad feeling that I haven\u2019t communicated with you as I would have wished. However I don\u2019t resign myself to non-communication, here or anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll write again sooner I hope than last time. Raymond dear, as always, much love<\/p>\n<p>from Iris<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpted from <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/press.princeton.edu\/titles\/10666.html\" target=\"_blank\">Living on Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934\u20131995<\/a><em> by Iris Murdoch, edited by Avril Horner &amp; Anne Rowe. Letters \u00a9 2015 by Kingston University. Published in North America by Princeton University Press and in the United Kingdom by Chatto &amp; Windus, an imprint of Vintage. Reprinted with\u00a0permission.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two letters from Iris Murdoch. 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