Adrian D'Ambra

I told you when I came I was a stranger…
I told you when I came I was a stranger…

[Adrian D'Ambra @Iamkomombo]

'Cavafy's Room', Nosukumo, Melbourne, 1987

[Durrell Society @DurrellSociety]

Today, as I sit at my desk in London to write an introduction to Clea, I realise in retrospect how deeply Durrell's fiction spoke to me. . . . Even years and journeys later, you will remember this story and its phantom memories, carrying them with you everywhere.

— Elif Shafak

[Adrian D'Ambra @Iamkomombo]

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[Adrian D'Ambra @Iamkomombo]

I'll tell you what's happening. Microsoft has just locked me out of my own Office documents. That's what's happening. #microsoft

[Adrian D'Ambra @Iamkomombo]

Further evidence that this whole tragedy has transpired as a global facilitation of Israeli foreign policy, i.e. military and colonial expansion.

[Adrian D'Ambra @Iamkomombo]

Al Jazeera: "US President Donald Trump says he has ⁠asked countries including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan and Turkiye to join the Abraham Accords en masse to normalise relations with Israel as part of ⁠an agreement with Iran."

[Adrian D'Ambra @Iamkomombo]

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[Adrian D'Ambra @Iamkomombo]

@AssalRad What could be a more singular, symbolic act representing the tyranny of colonisation than the rape of a colonial subject by a coloniser? Put the victim in mandatory detention and the perpetrator in one of the many uniforms of the state and you have the complete picture.

[Durrell Society @DurrellSociety]

Everything reproached him, the cypress
Revising her reflection in pools,
The olive's stubborn silver in wind,
The nude and statuary hills all
Saying 'Turn back. Turn back.
Peace lies another way, old man'.

— Lawrence Durrell (1940)

Corfu (Pomardi)

[Adrian D'Ambra @Iamkomombo]

'Detectives of the worthless human kiss, / Your currency of love must end like this, / Blue grief at dusk and some quiet love / At cockcrow with the ruins of the sky.' - Lawrence Durrell, "Blue Light at Dusk", 'Caesar's Vast Ghost', 1990

[Adrian D'Ambra @Iamkomombo]

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[Adrian D'Ambra @Iamkomombo]

'The first step towards creation is to lose /
Complete confidence in oneself and sort of die.' - Lawrence Durrell, "Why Wait?", 'Caesar's Vast Ghost', 1990

[Adrian D'Ambra @Iamkomombo]

"When I first set foot in Provence one could buy a 'mazet' very cheaply - happily for us, for we were broke, the common history of writers." - Lawrence Durrell, 'Caesar's Vast Ghost; aspects of Provence ', 1990

[Adrian D'Ambra @Iamkomombo]

"We had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything." - Lawrence Durrell, 'Bitter Lemons', 1957

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