Word: agrigento
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...travel books arrive like long letters from a civilized and very funny friend- the prose as luminous as the Mediterranean air he loves. One evening in Sicily, he could look from his hotel balcony and "see the distant moth-soft dazzle of the temples'" at Agrigento. In a little Sicilian town called Chaos, the birthplace of Pirandello, Durrell watched sunlight "worthy of a nervous breakdown by Turner." When a local doctor was summoned to treat a tourist in Durrell's party, "he had a singular sort of expression, a sort of holy expression which one suddenly realised came...