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  1. MIST0426/CT-LAWRENCE_DURRELL-JUSTINE

    Mistigram: for the recent books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection, Cthulu made this #ANSIart adaptation of #BertholdWolpe’s cover design for the 1957 novel #Justine, the first volume in #LawrenceDurrell’s Alexandria Quartet, featuring a #hamsa handprint to ward off evil spirits.

    #ANSIArt #BertholdWolpe #cthulu #hamsa #Justine #LawrenceDurrell #MIST0426
  2. Mistodon: for the recent books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection, Cthulu made this #ANSIart adaptation of #BertholdWolpe's cover design for the 1957 novel #Justine, the first volume in #LawrenceDurrell's Alexandria Quartet, featuring a #hamsa handprint to ward off evil spirits.

  3. Mistodon: for the recent books-themed MIST0426 artpack collection, Cthulu made this #ANSIart adaptation of #BertholdWolpe's cover design for the 1957 novel #Justine, the first volume in #LawrenceDurrell's Alexandria Quartet, featuring a #hamsa handprint to ward off evil spirits.

  4. First book of the new year & the last in #LawrenceDurrell ‘s #AlexandriaQuartet. Every book so far has blown me away.

  5. First book of the new year & the last in #LawrenceDurrell ‘s #AlexandriaQuartet. Every book so far has blown me away.

  6. #FirstLines What are your favorite first lines in a #novel ? " The sea is high again today, with a thrilling flush of wind. In the midst of winter you can feel the inventions of spring…. I return link by link along the iron chains of memory to the city which we inhabited so briefly together: the city which used us as its flora — precipitated in us conflicts which were hers and which we mistook for our own: beloved Alexandria! ..
    goodreads.com/book/show/13033. #TheAlexandriaQuartet by #LawrenceDurrell

  7. #FirstLines What are your favorite first lines in a #novel ? " The sea is high again today, with a thrilling flush of wind. In the midst of winter you can feel the inventions of spring…. I return link by link along the iron chains of memory to the city which we inhabited so briefly together: the city which used us as its flora — precipitated in us conflicts which were hers and which we mistook for our own: beloved Alexandria! ..
    goodreads.com/book/show/13033. #TheAlexandriaQuartet by #LawrenceDurrell

  8. ‘A landscape for resolutions and partings,’ says Zarian in an essay on famous visitors to Corcyra. ‘A landscape which precipitates the inward crisis of lives as yet not fully worked out.’

    Lawrence Durrell, Prospero’s Cell (1945)

    #Corfu #LawrenceDurrell