Heat as strong as a curse
Leigh Fermor finds many ways to convey the unforgiving heat and light of the sun in the...
Bullet-echoing crags
Beware the bullet-echoing crags, wherever they are. You can hear those cowboy-film ricochets in this one.
'... bullet-echoing crags of...
Champagne-bottle shoulders
What a charming if old-fashioned sounding description of sloping beauty, in this case referring to voluptuous Europa. Â And 'callipygous' describes...
Secret-seeming combe
'Secret-seeming' promises quiet landings of a boat shingling onto a beach, or morning departures. 'Combe' is curious in the context...
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...
Beam-borne planks
A poetic description of an ancient and abandoned bell tower; somehow 'beam-borne' implies flying rather than static, and I liked...
Ouzo-swilling fisherman
Leigh Fermor at one point starts day-dreaming he has discovered the rightful Emperor of Byzantium in the form of an...
Dungeon-like gloom
This gloom was no doubt accentuated by the blinding brilliance outside, and may even have been a soothing balm to...
Half-convincing illusion
I liked this vista, with its mile-long sweeps and acute angles like collapsible rulers. However, if you are to have...
Rough-hewn peninsulars
A rugged description of all-enduring peasants who survive in a brutal landscape.
'The three young fruiterers ... seemed queerly townish...
Brittle-looking lorry
I imagine a clapped-out lorry with rusted, flaking panels, paint-stripped by the endless sun. And watermelons for thirsty Maniots reminds...
Fate-spinning crones
Elsewhere Leigh Fermor talks of 'black-coiffed crones'. Here they are 'fate-spinning', giving a terrifying and timeless aspect to them, reinforced...
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