tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627322010786735293.post8087977215164752570..comments2023-10-01T09:35:35.894+02:00Comments on Antipodes: Things that happen conjointlyWilliam Skyvingtonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10052367756561555096noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8627322010786735293.post-13684198394423038982008-02-26T22:54:00.000+01:002008-02-26T22:54:00.000+01:00Mr. Skyvington,I envy you your chance meeting -- i...Mr. Skyvington,<BR/>I envy you your chance meeting -- if chance it was! -- with Durrell. A decade ago, I dragged my wife and 13 year-old daughter to his rather forbidding manse in that ancient Languedoc town, and recall being barked away by a menacing canine tied to a long rope within the rear entrance. And I, too, happily sponged up Caesar's Vast Ghost...as I have done with many of his evocative novels and island memoirs. <BR/>I've wondered about what in his work reached me so. Partly, perhaps, that as a young man, I studied ancient Greek for four years, and later traveled extensively there, including to his beloved Corfu, and to Rhodes, where his tiny Villa Cleobolus, nestled against the merciful eucalyptus shade of that moody Turkish graveyard by the harbor, was another of my pilgrim stops. May his work live on. And thank you for your post. <BR/><BR/>Tout a vous,<BR/>Frank Dineen (fmd47@comcast.net)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com