Read in our apps:
iOS
·Android
Cassandra
This book is currently unavailable
381 printed pages
- Copyright owner
- Bookwire
- Original publication
- 2013
- Publication year
- 2013
- Publisher
- Daunt Books
Quotes
- Ivana Melgozahas quoted3 months ago
It was for his sake, whom I hated, and for the sake of my father, whom I loved, that I had avoided screaming their state secret out loud. There was a grain of calculation in my self-renunciation. Eumelos saw through me. My father did not. - Ivana Melgozahas quoted2 days agohere, at one of the southernmost tips of Europe, that I would be overwhelmed by that sense of forlornness that signals the loss of all the coordinates where we embed ourselves, to which we cling. Forlorn, standing at the farthest outlying point of the pier that extends far into the sea, I watched the early, triumphal sunset behind the fortress of Burdzi and behind the mountain chain that shields the port on the west. Forlorn, I roamed through the queer streets of the Venetian Old Town. A malady which I did not want to call homesickness severed the tie between me and these little streets, this plump round moon, this polished sky.
- Ivana Melgozahas quoted2 days agoBut recently I have come to understand the source of the passion that drove Heinrich Schliemann and Arthur Evans, and my understanding is destined to grow until it borders on a passion that will drive me to an immoderate bout of reading and stand in the way of a sensible, rational work plan. The steps of the ancient forum where the apostle Paul may well have preached to the Corinthians, with the pillars of the far more ancient temple of Apollo in the background: this picture affords more insight than books can into the way various strata of belief are linked to various strata of rocks. What kind of faith will the people of the future (assuming there are people in the future) read out of our stone, steel, and concrete ruins? How will they account for the hubris of the gigantic metropolises, in which people cannot live without paying the penalty? Of the maze of themes which we, its contemporaries, perceive in our civilisation, will only a few remain? Power. Wealth. Delusions of grandeur?
fb2epub
Drag & drop your files
(not more than 5 at once)