'Especially when they grow out of their clothes. 'Well, two is plenty, I think,' she said and laughed. She didn't Come Out Of Herself, which was a Bad Thing in a new country. She was what people called vague, or English. Mother might have been grunting if she hadn't been taught how to behave. He had heard it so often he didn't always answer.
Aren't you, Waldo, better? You're strong now.' "'These are our twins,' Mother touched their hair to explain.
The Solid Mandala originally won both the 1966 Britannica Award, and the Miles Franklin Prize in 1967, but White, having resolved not to accept any more prizes for his novels, withdrew his books, and the prizes were re-awarded to other authors. Waldo feels only embarrassment that his brother, a grown man, still carries round a pocketful of marbles. The title of the book refers to the little glass spheres that Arthur carries everywhere, that are to him 'solid mandalas', symbols of wholeness and of the luminous mystery he senses at the heart of things. Yet it is Arthur who, capable of love, sees deeply into things which his brother can dissect but not understand. Waldo has intellectual ambitions and he bitterly resents being saddled with a brother who is a bit soft in the head. As old men they go hand in hand on their walks and throughout their lives they have been joined by ties which, whether of love or hatred, are close and unbreakable. Patrick White considered The Solid Mandala to be the book "in which I said most nearly what I wanted to say".įirst published in 1966, the book tells the story of twins Waldo and Arthur.
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