The Colossus of Maroussi

This morning I finished reading, I think for the third time, Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi. One of the really great books. I recently found this photo in a biography on Seferis, here you see Miller and Katsimbalis (who was The Colossus and for whom the book was written) visiting Hydra in 1939. On the steps of the painter Ghikas' huge house down in Kamini. Miller's description of Katsimbalis in the book is the writing of a pure compassionate genius.

Check out Miller's sun-glasses. Giorgios Seferis wrote: "...putting on his black spectacles as though to work on an oxy-acetylene flame...".

Intense guys, those two.

moustache tanaka

My friend has grown a moustache and it suits him well.
He looks distinguished and reminds me of all the times
I saw his late father in the movies,
often playing and looking like a gangster,
even without a moustache.

spitimou

I had breakfast outside today, the sun was strong when I woke up at 11.30.