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from: Walter Pater, "Leonardo da Vinci: Homo Minister Et Interpres Naturae" Studies in the History of the Renaissance (1873)

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Mountolive was mentally unrolling a map of Egypt with its green central spine bounded by deserts — to the north Suez like a caesarian section through which the East was untimely ripped. — Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet (1957-1960) NASA https://t.co/HQWrHrTEKl

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The tower became Durrell’s writing place and it was here that he wrote Prospero's Cell, his book about his happy days in Corfu before the war, and here too that he began writing what would become The Alexandria Quartet. — Michael Haag, on Lawrence Durrell & Villa Ambron Hogarth https://t.co/Xdtqfmghmy

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At Eleusis one realizes, if never before, that there is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy. At Eleusis one becomes adapted to the cosmos. — Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi (1941) Herbert List (1937) https://t.co/Pj38TMlPQa

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@CraigAbbottVO thank you — most interesting (this script is not Lawrence Durrell's — would enjoy knowing more about the 1958 Cyprus provenance if you have the information — the quotation is from Balthazar, ending with a truncated variant)

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The dark uncombed blue of the Cyclades slowly uncurling about the flanks of Mykonos and Delos. . . . Girls like Elie with dark slanting arms and long olive legs. . . . Tinos where the red sails walk down the main street. — Lawrence Durrell, Prospero's Cell (1945) https://t.co/esCDEMp3UM

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@Garner_images @CCavafy James Merrill has our deepest appreciation The Changing Light at Sandover is our particular event — a place-marker setting 'before' apart from 'after' — a reading experience not to be missed.

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“My friends, my friends!” said the Voice so pathetically, with a note of such infinitely tender reproach, "Why aren’t you all being happy and good together?" — Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932) Aldous Huxley, b. 26 July 1894 https://t.co/gIFa7IzSKf

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The dust underneath my bare feet reminded me, as Lawrence Durrell nicely put it, that 'the desert is always there at your elbow.' — Michael Vatikiotis, Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant https://t.co/lGgxvscZlm

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"How's Ann, George; not off to the country again, I hope?" "Oh, very bonny, thank you." — John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy (1977) Alec Guinness as George Smiley https://t.co/VeyssIMXCC