An abandoned fortress, occupied only by cormorants. No wonder, the human inhabitants probably fled an atmosphere described as the ‘architecture of hatred’.
‘The great storm beaten and cormorant-haunted castle at Coroni as “the architecture of hatred”.’
Source: Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese, introduction by Michael Gorra, New York: New York Review of Books, 2006 (1958), p. 332
0 Comments