Bibi - If you're still lurking and have not yet
gone off in a huff....Thanks for the comparison to Ulysses! (Prompted to respond
because I am currerntly listening to Cream's "Disraeli Gears" album and the
track "Tales of Brave Ulysses".)
Oddly enough, although I am an Anglo (with a bit of
Celt thrown in) and quarter German on my mother's side, the only nationality I
have ever been mistaken for is Greek. At 6-foot, with black hair, brown eyes and
a skin that tans easily, I always thought I could be mistaken for an Italian.
But, on my first visit to Europe in 1976, while staying in Athens, people kept
coming up to me an trying to start a conversation in Greek. We were staying with
the parent of a Greek friend of ours in the suburb of Nea Smyrna, so I asked the
mother: "Why is this so?" She gave me a critical look, and suggested it was the
black beard.
But does this explain my love of ancient Greek
history & culture? The foundation of our Western civilisation, I will assert
- and allow no dissension from this view! And as we all know from our readings
of Herodotus and Thucydides, the Greeks from circa 400BC colonised southern
Italy...
So, if it's farewell, sweet Beatrice, it's a
parting without an inkling of your "true being and reality". No web sites with
your visage or works?
Viv