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Tag Archives: Greece
Homer texting from the islands
Cycladic villages – how is it that they never get dirty? In Athens, age drips rustily down the walls; on a Cycladic island, the white of village houses is brighter than white, beyond pigment, beyond age. They are like sugar cubes … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue, Color Theory, Cycladic islands, Greece, white
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Dreaming in Greek
Athens’ past is so strong – as idea, as dream – it dominates the dirty white sprawl which extends 300 degrees around it – 360 degrees, if it weren’t for the sea. In contrast to this vertical spread, the Parthenon … Continue reading
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Tagged Athens, cultural history, Greece, Lycabettus Hill, Parthenon, travel writing Acropolis
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Shape-Shifting in Thessaloniki
The Thessaloniki experience has to include both ghosts and crowds. Walking through the old souks on a mid-August holiday, its corridors are full of shadows, smells but no people, plastic bags flapping on the skeletal rafters. This is a good … Continue reading
Blue Cosmos, Greek Style
Struck by the linear perfection and balance of the Acropolis, a literary observer noted how nervous the ancient Greeks must have been – how high strung, highly sensitive, neurotic. They were delicate and high maintenance, thus the ancient Greeks quested, … Continue reading
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Tagged Athens, chaos, cosmos, Eastern Orthodoxy, Greece, modern Greece, Ouranopoli, summer 2017, travel writing
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