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Durrell is a 27-year-old Anglo-Irishman, born in Burma and raised on the border of Tibet, now working as clerk at the Ionian Bank in Corfu. Insofar as it has a story, The Black Book tells of a group of people living in a stuffy English hotel -all neurotic, frustrated, savage and obsessed with sex. The narrator brings home an 18-year-old tuberculous prostitute, Gracie, speculates about his neighbors, suffers a baffled, angry grief at Gracie's death...
...picking up a young man and beginning a clandestine but innocent correspondence. She developed new hobbies: a morbidly "humanitarian" interest in insanity; a kind of throne-room liberalism in which she prattled social equality, without realizing what a limb she was out on. She built a Greek palace in Corfu (cost to Franzi: 30,000,000 kronen), tried to sell it as soon as it was built. She traveled tirelessly. At 57 Sisi became a great-grandmother. She exercised, traveled, prattled harder than ever...
Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 77, published in Berlin a richly-illustrated, 163-page book entitled Studien zur Gorgo ("Studies of the Gorgon"). The exiled Kaiser began Gorgon research in 1911 after visiting the ancient Doric temple on the island of Corfu said to have been built in honor of the three Greek Gorgons (Stheno, Euryale, Medusa), mythological snaky-haired sisters whose terrifying looks turned beholders into stone...
...first State papers requiring royal signature arrived from London and were signed by His Majesty. When the Nahlin anchored off Corfu, bemonocled King George II of Greece went aboard, but nothing was seen of his eligible sisters, Princess Irene and Princess Catherine. To happy King Edward VIII was attributed by Yugoslavs this prophecy: "There will be no war. The British people do not want one and the World generally had enough unpleasantness during the last...
...eligible Princesses, Irene and Catherine, shall meet bachelor King Edward on his holiday. In Athens the newsorgan Patris flatly declared that the engagement of His Majesty to one or the other of Their Royal Highnesses "will soon be announced." The Princesses were en route to the idyllic isle of Corfu where King George II was said to anticipate entertaining King Edward...