From Bosnian History @BosnianHistory:
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Unfortunately I know nothing else about this pic: where or when or who took it…nothing. I guess we can safely say it’s before the Revolution. It’s just really beautiful.
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C.P. Cavafy @CCavafy “His poetry… immortalizes the moment at which the predestined disaster or corruption happened. Of all poets he is the one who most makes success look like grandiose failure and failure look like fatal success.”
– Stephen Spender on Cavafy.
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Tags: Alexandria, C.P. Cavafy, Cavafy, Egypt, Greece, Greek, Κωνσταντίνος Καβάφης, Stephen Spender
Making coffee for themselves and sitting outside their apartment door; πηγαδάκι (“little well”, or intimate conversation, especially when gossipy in nature) with social distancing. Makes you wonder whether “southern” cultures suffer more from lockdown than, say, Norwegians, who are probably happy that they don’t have to talk to their neighbors.
Thanks for photo to Δημήτρης @Dem1tr1s .
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Beautiful and also interesting, because their dress is very close to traditional folk dress of the region, and I would have expected prosperous, Christian bourgeioses women in a large city like Trebizond at the time to be dressed in more Western clothes.
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Me, I'm Nicholas Bakos, a.k.a. "NikoBako." I'm Greek (Roman really, but when I say that in English some five people in the world today understand what I'm talking about, so I use "Greek" for shorthand). I'm from New York. I live all over the place these days. The rest should become obvious from the blog.
See "JADDE: THE MISSION AND STARTING OFF, the blog's first entry below, and JADDE: THE NAME OF THIS BLOG for my general agenda:
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Jadde: from Bosnia to Bengal