After a day of confusion, the wind has decidedly changed from the cold
Northern European Bura to a hot, sticky Yugo coming up from Africa.
Night and day, it is whistling through the sailboat masts and howling
through the side streets. There are 30 or more sailboats stranded for a
day or so until it blows itself out. I am listening to the wind with
pleasure and reading Thucydides now and am totally confounded as to why
the Athenians tried to invade Sicily in the Peloponnesian War, and why
they suffered such a disastrous rout. Thucydides description of it is
pretty harrowing. What in hell were they thinking? I lie in bed at
night unable to sleep thinking about it. Anyone?
1 comment:
It probably had something to do with money
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