Books lost and gained
In Leigh Fermor's enchanting walk across Europe, he find islands of great hospitality where he can rest and recuperate from...
The loss of a journal
How many notebooks, journals or letters have been swept away by circumstance, carrying the minutiae of memory with them? Leigh...
Mouldywarp
A curious and endearing term of Middle English origin, but now archaic or dialect only, although deserving revival. It means...
A lyre-bird among carrion-crows
Well, if you're going to outshine your peers, let it be by such a striking margin. Here Leigh Fermor is...
Skeleton fists and black commas
This perfectly captures the gnarliness of old vines and I like the black commas contrasting against the snow-white backdrop.
'Pruned...
High-perched asylum
In his acknowledgements, Leigh Fermor thanks a number of people for 'kindness and haven during restless literary displacements', and it...
A table laid by ravens
Leigh Fermor describes the unexpected hospitality and kindness encountered in the Mani after having been warned that his throat would...
As motionless as …
I have tried to think of standard similes for stillness, and 'statue' is an obvious one, here morphed into a...
Twice-baked bread
Paximadia is clearly a Greek name for a traditional Greek bread, but it has a pacific Latin echo in that...
Thorn-studded bats
No, this isn't a description of a gothic night-flight of vampiric birds, he is referring rather to the big, flat...
Detonations of flight
An original way to capture the sudden soaring of a flock of birds. A few weeks ago, a flock of...
Far-tinkling haze
I am trying to imagine, visually and aurally, a far-tinkling haze. As a way to distance yourself from any kind...
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