Under one of the tabs were underlined with red the poems of Eliot. A deserted villa on the southern half of the island suddenly came to life: on the beach, he found blue fins, smelling faintly with feminine makeup, a towel and an anthology of English poetry. After a visit to a brothel in Athens he got sick, and that finally threw him into a deep depression - up to the suicide attempt.īut miracles began in May. He wrote poetry, but it was on this earth, where is some strange way the true measure of things became clear for him, and suddenly realized conclusively that he was not a poet, and his poems were mannered and pompous. Nicholas was alone wandering around the island, learning previously unknown to him absolute beauty of the Greek landscape. Island Fraksos appeared divinely beautiful and deserted. So they broke up he went to Greece, she received a job of a flight attendant. She was twenty-three, he was - twenty-five they fell in love with each other, but were afraid to admit it. On the same day, when he was offered the job, he met Alison, a woman from Australia, who rented a room on the floor below. Nicholas considered himself a poet engrossed into reading novels of the French existentialists, taking metaphorical descriptions of complex philosophical systems of the tutorial correct behavior not realizing that favorite anti-heroes act in literature, but not in reality he created a club Les Hommers Revokes (Rebellious people) - bright individuals rebelled against the gray routine of life and finally came to life, on his own assessment ,"fully prepared to fail."Īfter graduating from Oxford he got a place of a teacher in a small school in the east of England having hardly endure year in the boondocks, he appealed to the British Council, wanting to work abroad, and so ended up in Greece as an English teacher at the school of Lord Byron on Fraksose, an island eighty kilometers from Athens. He stayed alone, with a small but independent annual revenue, has bought a used car - among students it was quite uncommon and contributed to his success among girls. Nicholas Urfe was born in 1927 in the family of brigadier general after a brief service in the army in 1948 he went to Oxford, and a year later his parents died in a plane crash.
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