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• Leonardo Sciascia (1)
  • IN: The Council of Egypt (1963) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: We can see [Sicily] from here, the way you can look from the Tuileries across to the Faubourg Saint-Germain; the Strait - my word, it's scarely any wider than that, and yet we are in difficulties over the crossing. Would you believe it? If all we lacked were a good wind, we could do as Agamemnon did, and sacrifice a young maiden. We have more than enough of them, thank God. But there's not a boat to be had, that's the dilemma. One will be coming in, they say; so long as I have hopes of this, never suppose, Madame, that I will cast a single backward glance toward the country where you live, much as I delight in it. Now I want to see the homeland of Persephone, and discover why the Devil took himself a wife in that country.
    FROM: Lettres de France et d'Italie, (1830), NULL, NULL