Sunlight dripping
Durrell's various Greek island books and Miller's Colossus of Maroussi enchanted me with their marvelous descriptions of people, places and...
Skull-like blankness
A blindingly white description of a sun-parched landscape. Elsewhere Leigh Fermor conjures another type of blankness, that of a face,...
Sunlight like birds
This conveys the distant wink and sparkle of sun glancing off a choppy sea surface and appearing, at a distance,...
Sun-refracting facet
Mani is a stark and unforgiving landscape, conveyed with sharp-edged precision by Leigh Fermor.
'But there were no bridges or...
Glittering as though sugared
Ah yes, that's how it looks when you have those dancing sparkles on the sea's surface. I like the extension...
Measuring shadows
I love this description of Greek architecture as being a mathematical exercise in measuring of the sun's progress and its...
Lemon-coloured light
A warming, bright but not dazzling light, and streaming through gaps in snow-clouds too.
'The sky was loosening and lemon-coloured...
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