Food-rich water
Here's to hoping the future will see the ocean still full of food-rich water.
'Its dredger-bucket mouth agape...
Be careful what you promise
This precedes an account in which the remote gods called ‘grown ups’ casually promise a trip to the circus which...
Sweet-blooded natures
A description of the Reverend Irwine, whose sisters are elsewhere described as being entirely superfluous. He is the only person...
Deep-keeled ice
An arresting image of ice grounding like a boat’s hull scraping a shallow sea-floor.
‘… the sound of deep-keeled ice...
Here comes Hera
One goddess you should never cross, quick to rouse to wrath and terrible in her exactions. Divinely, drop-dead gorgeous, of course.
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Wheat-complexioned face
You would not expect that this unusual hue - wheat-complexioned - describes a young and uncertain Jesus. Kazantzakis' surprising version...
Prune-like eyes
A clever lawyer who bides his time and slowly, quietly hoovers up the assets of dissolute aristocrats, while ever fawning...
Sweet-garlanded lady
None other than Artemis, or Diana, Apollo's twin, and goddess of wild animals and hunting. Struck by Ever Angry Hera (or...
Hill-sent echo
An inexplicable and even supernatural moment in the book that proves a turning point, snapping Jane out of her acquiescence...
Raspberry-grey boulevards
Trying to imagine a raspberry-grey boulevard, and can only think of the grey of the road itself combined with a...
Rock-strewn surface
Two ideas were imprinted on my mind in Leigh Fermor's description of the Mani landscape - unremitting heat and unforgiving...
Cactus-haunted emptiness
One of the features that vibrates through Leigh Fermor's writing on the Mani is the blinding light and heat, compounded...
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