Η εποχή της δωρεάς
Patrick Leigh Fermor, 1977
Travel & nature HistoryMemoir & biography
A young traveler leaves London for Constantinople on foot, attentive to the weather, streets, strangers and history that shape the road.
Feels like wonder, curiosity and longing. About adventure, nature and time.
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A departure can divide one life into before and after.
Εδώ και κει διακρίνονταν σκόρπιες σημαδούρες και η ανιχνευτική λάμψη ενός φάρου. Σφραγισμένο πίσω από τους μαιάνδρους του νερού, το Λονδίνο είχε εξαφανιστεί και μονάχα μια πυρρόχρωμη καταχνιά μαρτυρούσε τα κατατόπια του. Αναρωτιόμουν πότε θα ξαναγύριζα. Η έξαψή μου κρατούσε τον ύπνο μακριά· πόσο σημαντική φάνταζε η νύχτα! Και ήταν RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MTY1MTE= Π Α Τ Ρ Ι Κ Λ Η Φ Ε Ρ Μ Ο Ρ 40 πράγματι από κάθε άποψη: Η 9η Δεκεμβρίου του 1933 έφτανε στο τέλος της και δεν θα έπαιρνα το δρόμο της επιστροφής πριν από τον Ιανουάριο του 1937 – διάστημα που αργότερα μου φά νηκε ολόκληρη ζωή· θα γύριζα πίσω σαν τον Oδυσσέα plein d’ usage et de raison 32 και, για καλό ή για κακό, εντελώς μεταμορφω μένος από τα ταξίδια μου. Patrick Leigh Fermor.Fermor began this journey in 1933, aged eighteen; he wrote the book decades later, drawing on his diaries and memory.
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Καιρός του σιγάν
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What do you bring someone who has all of time?
I want to be a body for you. I want to chase you, find you, I want to be eluded and teased and adored; I want to be defeated and victorious—I want you to cut me, sharpen me. I want to drink tea beside you in ten years or a thousand. Flowers grow far away on a planet they’ll call Cephalus, and these flowers bloom once a century, when the living star and its black-hole binary enter conjunction.I want to fix you a bouquet of them, gathered across eight hundred thousand years, so you can draw our whole engagement in a single breath, all the ages we’ve shaped together.
This Is How You Lose the Time War · Amal El-Mohtar
What it costs to be the only one not counting the dead as profit.
Many of our tribe went to the cliff each night to count the number killed during the day. They counted the dead otter and thought of the beads and other things that each pelt meant. But I never went to the cove and whenever I saw the hunters with their long spears skimming over the water, I was angry, for these animals were my friends.
Island of the Blue Dolphins · Scott O'Dell
The eerie certainty that you have lived this exact moment before.
We have all some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time—of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances—of our knowing perfectly what will be said next, as if we suddenly remembered it! I never had this mysterious impression more strongly in my life, than before he uttered those words.
David Copperfield · Charles Dickens
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