Reflections on a Marine Venus
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"Somewhere among the notebooks of Gideon I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. These are people, Gideon used to say, by way of explanation, who find islands somehow irresistible. We islomanes, says Gideon, are the direct descendants of the Atlanteans, and it is toward the lost Atlantis that our subconscious is drawn. This means that we find islands irresistible."--Reflections on a Marine Venus (1953) by Lawrence Durrell |
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Reflections on a Marine Venus (1953) by Lawrence Durrell
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