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Can a landscape become a teacher? What is the nature of clarity?
Pericles Giannopoulos, Divine Appearances: the Greek Line & the Greek Color
Page 19
That most-distant Mountainous Sky-Blue Circuit, the chest of which is made silver, and the airs above it and the materials below it are made gold by Gold and Silver nearly not exactly from heaven, but invisibly flowing from the air - that circuit is being cut by a second Cycle formed in the inside of it and closer to us, consisted of plains, hills and rocks - of St. Loukas, Lycabetous, Ardittos, Filoppapos, Planetarium. And in an even wider periphery, including the Faleric ground, Kastella and the swellings near us of Korydallos' and Skaramaggas' mountain-line, a Cycle never sky-blue, in entirely different colors, all multicolored, as if it's necessary to be proved even by means of... Color! the characteristic unity of the whole of Hellenism and the Greek man and the infinite variety of the parts, as is proved chorographically, chromatically and grammically, and from the entire Greece and from each partial point. This multicolored cycle, the dominated by Gold, the Blond Cycle, which I won't describe here in details, so as not to lengthen the narration [] it is gold-colored, yellow-colored, black-colored and the like. The faraway Sky-Blue and Silver-Sky-Blue and Vacaville-colored are touched optically by the Blonde, the Golden, the Acacia-flowering, by the blood-colored tiny hills - like St. Loukas' - the brick-colored, the cinnamon-like, the goldyellowish, the dust-colored, brown-colored, place side by side the most sudden, unimagined and most strong oppositions, and yet they manage to combine most wonderfully, to achieve a most miraculous harmony, synthesizing a total of incomparable originality and intensive beauty, that we see.
Cf. Images of Greece * Oscar Wilde, I stood upon the soil of Greece at last! * Jules Verne, Not anyone can see Naxos on the moon! * Mark Twain, Seeing Athens by stealth and moonlight * W. Davis, The Physical Setting of Athens
