In fact, Fowles himself is not averse to ownership of multiple interpretations of the ending (a quality he subsequently demonstrated, literally, in The French Lieutenant’s Woman). Although ultimately, as Fowles has noted, it is up to the reader to come up with his or her own interpretation. It seems fairly clear that Fowles is indicating, through the quote, his preferred resolution to the story as it pertains to Nicholas and Alison. The opening lines of an anonymous Latin lyric titled The Vigil of Venus (3rd century A.D.), it translates to: “Tomorrow let him love, who has never loved he who has loved, let him love tomorrow.”Īn alternate translation, submitted by Professor Andrey Kravtsov of New Mexico State University, is: “Let those love now who’ve never loved let those who’ve loved, love yet again.” So, in order to save time (for both those asking the question and us), here’s the scoop: cras amet qui numquam amavit quique amavit cras amet
“What does the quotation at the end of The Magus mean?” One question in particular keeps popping up again and again: Handsomely equipped to fail, I went out into the world.We receive lots of e-mail at this site, much of it asking questions about John Fowles and his work. I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn't found where I loved, and so I pretended that there was nowhere to love. The truth was I was not a cynic by nature, only by revolt. One day I was outrageously bitter among some friends about the Army back in my own rooms later it suddenly struck me that just because I said with impunity things that would have apoplexed my dead father, I was still no less under his influence. It showed me, very intermittently, that it is not enough to revolt against one's past. But I did absorb a small dose of one permanently useful thing, Oxford's greatest gift to civilized life: Socratic honesty.
I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope- an impotence, in short and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all. But nothing could have been less poetic that my seeing-through-all boredom with life in general and with making a living in particular. I got a third-class degree and a first-class illusion: that I was a poet. “I acquired expensive habits and affected manners.
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