Of love and torment
Kazantzakis' bold and imaginative retelling of Christ's life - and death - gives a new take on some of the...
A man with no plan
We went to a charity bazarre the other morning, and came staggering out with a sack load of books. Before...
The cry of justice
Sooner or later, someone, somewhere will cry out against a wrong, no matter how small and despised their voice to...
The desert of Idemea
Lovely likening of the heat-haze quivering of a desert to the rippling pattern-dappled back of a leopard.
'To the south,...
God-trodden chaos
This vivid re-telling of Christ's story evokes a human hunger for unity and enlightenment, and freedom from 'God-trodden chaos'. This...
Of smoke and goats
A refreshing image for a choking smoke. I tried to find a picture of goats who looked as though smoke...
Desert-roughened voice
This refers to Salome (not that Salome), the upright, powerful wife of Zebedee, whose anger terrifies her son because it...
Of strength and tenderness
This comes from Kazantzakis's account of Jesus' life and death, and I was astonished by the prayer he puts in...
Newly-foliaged poplar
A curious tree for a Biblical era village, since the poplar isn't a tree you associate with the region. And...
Rules and writers
Nikos Kazantzakis, best known as the author of Zorba the Greek, pretty much wipes the floor with literary theorists, quite...
Wheat-complexioned face
You would not expect that this unusual hue - wheat-complexioned - describes a young and uncertain Jesus. Kazantzakis' surprising version...
Freshly-bathed earth
The freshness after rain which Rumi uses as a metaphor for spiritual enlightenment, is here presented as a source of...
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