“He saw the darkening lands slipping away past him…”
Join Joyce as the night train steams from Dublin to Cork. A two minute read… that will linger in your thoughts much longer. Find the moody excerpt at Destinationality (no ads, no sign up)
On arriving in Bangkok: "...Here and there in the distance, above the crowded mob of low, brown roof ridges, towered great piles of masonry, King’s Palace, temples, gorgeous and dilapidated, crumbling under the vertical sunlight, tremendous, overpowering, almost palpable, which seemed to enter one’s breast with the breath of one’s nostrils and soak into one’s limbs through every pore of one’s skin."
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Join Conrad as he floats “under the shadow of the great gilt pagoda”, and through the Thai capital “crumbling under the vertical sunlight”.
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Take a summer stroll with Dostoyevsky’s “dreamer” narrator through Saint Petersburg, as he finds solace in nature just outside the city gates.
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The Guardian recently listed its “100 best novels of all time”. The author with the #1 novel? George Eliot.
Here’s an expansive, haunting paragraph she wrote about Prague, and her character’s “visions… of strange cities”:
“…The more I lived… the more frequent and vivid became such visions as that I had had of Prague—of strange cities, of sandy plains, of gigantic ruins, of midnight skies with strange bright constellations, of mountain-passes, of grassy nooks flecked with the afternoon sunshine through the boughs: I was in the midst of such scenes, and in all of them one presence seemed to weigh on me in all these mighty shapes—the presence of something unknown… …revealed and yet hidden by the moving curtain of the earth and sky.”
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A great short story. “Morning gave us a new world--somewhere between Heaven and Earth.” More weekend reading on Destinationality. (free, no sign-up) https://destinationality.com/destination/asia/greater-china/hong-kong/rudyard-kipling/
Glad to see Madame Bovary at number 10 on the latest “100 best novels of all time” by The Guardian. \#TheGuardian The perfect time to add a NEW Paris story!
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“…Paris, more vague than the ocean, glimmered before Emma’s eyes in an atmosphere of vermilion.”
Obviously, I am not Virginia Woolf! :P But I edit classic travel literature into short stories or vignettes about iconic destinations. In this case, London. Originally published 99 years ago, this is excerpted from STREET HAUNTING: A LONDON ADVENTURE. Read more at Destinationality (free, no sign-up): https://destinationality.com/destination/europe/united-kingdom/london/virginia-woolf/