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| GREEN-EYED

MONSTER

To pin this thing down, I will tell

you a true and

terrible story.

TEARLY 20 years ago a friend of mine, a painter, threw up a stendy job

and went to live in the Country,

N

He was a man of remárkáble tenacity, even more remarkable creative gifts. Feles to tell him that artists invariably starve, Hopeless, to remind him that he had a wife and would probably soon have a family. He wanted to, paint, aud; come hel er high water, that was what he was going to do,

And, come hell or high water-and there was all too often the hell of red Tank @gures and all too seldom the high water of the side of a canvas-tbut is what he did do.

He painted. He sweated. And sometimes he nearly starved. And as if all this were not tempting Providence enough, he tempted it still further. He produced a family of four children,

And as if this were still not enough, he fathered the last two of them in the early years of the war when times were grim, nights-comfortless, and canvases hurd To get and harder to sell,

And as if this were still not enough, he joined up and became a war artist,

plunging into

the war with

the 'sume Come hell

or high

water attitude

JEALOUSY

she had once gone to live

in the country.

Now, the umezing

upshot of

#1 is not that th's inan so many of his friends demonstrated that

perfect, r

he was a fool, as so many people Russed and hoped he would.

by

H. E. Bates

Author of THE PURPLE PLAIN. THE SADARANDA TREE. LOVE FOR LYDIA

without man. She can never be fully realised without him.

Am I now going to say that jealousy is predominantly feminine emotion? I will not be 50 ciogmatie.

a

THE AUTHON

be

fulfilled-the

fructify, to denial of these things can only be, in a lesser or greater degree, a tragedy.

To see these things being granted to others, and to be sharply aware of it us a mani- festation of success, as getting on in the world, as having all the luck, as gaining material security, with the other as being a hit

main sex, is undeniably the force as I sce it behind the thing

we call jealousy. This was on the pretext that violent. It would be possible to

she did not wish to be over be amused at It if its enti were looked. At the same time she ludicrous.

What seems clear to ine, how ever, is that woman needs nian He became a great success. His

with such fundamental urgency

even, that every other woman, now sell at £500 1 eanvases

left a prep-hole in the fence su Yet is end, like the extra her own mother lime. His work is

and her own Interno that she could

uld observe, on the ordinary threads which make tionally known, bought, and re-

other

daughter, is side, the progress of a life it up, is neither

a potential rival. violent nor cognised.

she could not attain.

For that reason her jealousies luttlerous. It just drags on-part seem more obvious.

In ber Then she bought und in front of au obscure, unviolent,

un Blood, not knowing it,

Fantastic

Krew also.

of and behind the artist's house, resolved tragedy whose drab and she is terrified that the

details could be re- WE now come to an unpredict. So that, as the artist's possessions irrationat

able point in this story. The frog, the could be sure that hers peated for a million women, with body of man, without effect of such an immense essay

emillon dogs, cats, parrots, which she cannol re- On this land also the artist or canaries or whatever you wish, produce her kind, will the creative urge of trust in

and his wife could not walk and all over the world. would surely invoke, you are her; but she could in fact

somehow be lost to Next week Il pretty certain, "her nothing but universal admiration.

At this point, if I think, that Not at all. On une woman; at walk and see them.

another novelist, you are a woman, was dark and

Nigel Balchin, will be writing of you will probably ex- the odd currents of jealusy that claim with mild out-

least, the effect

LANCETOUS.

Imagination

For 20 years, in the house PUT presently It was

not run through the world of com- rage that you never

next door, she has looked upon enough that she had her merce. It is my guess that he think of such things.

looks; even at their best, were

their

Yet, in thinking of it as a des.

unsavoury, repellent pleable, emotion or pure instinct, call it what you like, are we necessarily right?

"For I the Lord thy God am a jealous God." In remembering

that

from quotation Exodus, I am reminded that the word jealous, by, etymology, is simply another form of zealous.

NEXT WEEK Jealousy by Nigol

Balchin

You will probably also protest What of the struggle of men that you are unaware that what cattiness can and women-especially women- you call sheer

A tragedy

That

Est meaning

another implicit quotation we know well"I have "boeri very Jealous for the Lord of Hosts."

Perhaps it is not inappro- priate to suggest, therefore, that it is not enough merely to love

but also to be jealous in and through love. In other words to be zealous or ardent in pursuit of the creative end.

And nor I think would it be inappropriate to remind you that we adapt the word Jealousy from. the French, jalousie, and to FXACTLY. You are unaware, recali that in that language the Only a fraction of you have word survives in another mean- ever been aware.

ing. Nor is there necessarily any

A shutter sigma in that. The profoundest of Instincts

not municipal

Arc

the urgent struggle and truliion dogs, her cuts, her parrot and will have something to say, then, Exactly. You never think of. of this young man, and his wife her land and they their children, on what we call competition, or them.

Like a She invented something they did the struggle, of businesses to with hungry- calumny. curied canker she has lived self- not possess, and, in imagination.

survive. Imprisoned, locked by jealousy.

It to them--and, amazingly, guve I need hardly add that she it was a big Alsatian dog. is not married; or that her There was. of course. The such to survive? To culstrip, out-do, possibly arise from such profound

dog. The artlat and his wife did out-fulfil, out-love each other, and fundamental.things.

to like dogs, and not much more seductive than not happen

These are te queations In those of a frost-bitten wurzel on certainly not Alsatians. But the which 1, as a novelist, am more A dank November field.

fact of its imaginary possession interested, and in which, as I Yot inside her there exists and by them gave her yet one more see it, the clues and causes of

haunting 4

what Shakespeare so aptly called grows and persists

excuse for jealousy. She The dug was lorror forcer, "the green-eyed monster" lie. and preposterous emotion. is black with jealousy, for the more aggressive than her own. achievements of two people to it was, therefore, possible 10

The rivals whom she has not spoken for imagine that it threatened and

LL his life another novelist nearly

endangered decades. two

is, be you all Preposterous indeed, you say, existences.

The Fantastic.

funcy

of

know, a kind. of shutter, By inventing something hate- "woman was the eternal con- Black and white, with equal ap- 21

made of wooden more able more tinuance," needing eternal lovers,

alats, over a novelist. 1 shall be telling you ful she was

plication to all. next, you will

house-window, and lamade in say, the impossible

60 for nearly 20 years a young someone else's sons. He "main- I am sometimes criticised, os such a way as to screen the At the same time couple, following the creative tained that "woman is the Flesh," writer Not quite.

without and yet storles, hechuse, window fram emotions of this stream, have built up for them- and that God should not be God those stories are so often can enable you to look the powerful

out from woman are not an illusion. Nor selves a successful, beautiful, the Father, but God the Mother, cerned with the tragedies of un- within.

life in which they are they rare. She is the victim, unenvious

And, to prove it, he wrote a fullment. Yet tho central. Perhaps that is why the un desired to harm a of the most

fine novel, "Sons and Lovers," in tragedy of life ust trrational, have never

story indeed,

appears to me married woman with whose which tho consuming and incontestably, to be lack of love, 'I I began felt she must put up a powerful, subterranean, perhaps soul,

woman has possessive jealousy of a mother negation, a

The child that turns to the most coramon of Impulses.

the she expressed this watched it, mostly through a for her. song 'runs, through wie, darent, that; cannot of wil fence about herself and yet leave : How has

a peep-hole through" which she Jealousy? Im the most extra- crack in a fence, with poisonous book like a dark od trage ne va afton

But if woman is the oternal, no the type becognised, now, could look out on the creative

almost every life, love, ·wid

fulfilment of ordinary

eyes, consumed with what seeing

on the surfacò, · a pre- continuance, if she is the delinquents every malad usted others First, and moot significantly, to lit,

potty, maniacal flesh that "produces all the rest mallogerer who is jealous of And perhaps not. This match as we shall see, the barricaded posterous,

of the flesh, as indeed, she is, stability, bew, *?onch; the trulla of more likely that she did not horself behind high fences and obsession.

It would be easy to be horri then it is equally certain that she success,

know that she had built, un- masses of quick-growing, newly

.fied by thistory if its end were cannot accomplish these things To be loved, to dower, to wiltingly, her Jalousie. planted trees.

tend D. II. Lawrence, argued that bye-laws, put up in pubile; in ▲ JALOUSIE

details of some secret love uttale Philively to express her hatred. whether they were her awar

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