From the Himalaya: travels and tall tales. Personal interests: @malayraunsil
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Dear Henry:
Here I am at long last, battered & bitched & travel-stained, but home to silence — except the mistral howling & the noise of the rain: home in this old vampire house.
— Lawrence Durrell, letter to Henry Miller (1972)
LD's "Vampire House" (Sommières)
दिवाली की आधी सफ़ाई पूरी। रात का पोग्राम तंदूरी चिकन और स्प्राइट। कोई बढ़िया फिलम का भी इंतज़ाम करना होगा, देखते हैं।
He had been crossing peacefully the Cordilleras of the Andes. A snowbound stillness brooded on the ranges; the winter snow had brought its peace to all its vastness...sheer peaks...cloaks of stone, an ominous tranquility.
—Saint Exupery, Night Flight.
© Alfred Buckham. See ALT.
ALT Over the Alps, c. 1930. Collection of John and Richard Buckham.
Also, I implore you to explore Alfred Buckham's work. What joy.
Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
He had been crossing peacefully the Cordilleras of the Andes. A snowbound stillness brooded on the ranges; the winter snow had brought its peace to all its vastness...sheer peaks...cloaks of stone, an ominous tranquility.
—Saint Exupery, Night Flight.
© Alfred Buckham. See ALT.
ALT Over the Alps, c. 1930. Collection of John and Richard Buckham.
Thinking of Chekhov's landrail, serious little pilgrim, choosing to walk most of its migratory route, flying only when coming across rivers and seas...
