Word: aegean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...converted wartime Victory ships, 500,000 Americans will land in Europe this summer in the greatest tourist invasion in history. With curiosity and half a billion in cash, they will wander from the all-night-sun Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle, to the stoned isles of the Aegean. Some will tramp through cathedrals, others will look for the high life, and many will exhaust themselves trying to combine some of both. But Americans in Europe in 1960 are in for some surprises...
Christianity moved west from Asia Minor to Europe after a dream in which the figure of a man appeared beside Paul's bed and cried: "Come over into Macedonia and help us!" Paul carried the Gospel across the Aegean, through Macedonia and down to Athens, where in the agora below the Acropolis he preached his most famous sermon, proclaiming "the unknown God" to whom the Athenians had erected a monument. Almost as well known is Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders at Miletus, when they knelt weeping on the shore after he had told them, "You . . . will...
...Clea, which opens several years after the events of the first three books, time marches forward again. After selfexile on an Aegean island. Irishman Darley returns to Alexandria, still asking questions, still getting dusty answers. Justine, the great intriguer, has grown older and suffered a stroke: a drooping eyelid gives a leering expression to her rouged and overpowdered face. She climbs again into Darley's bed, and he flees her, shuddering. But Darley must love someone, and he turns to blonde Clea. Her words after they make love are the same ones spoken by Justine in the first volume...