. The Burton Holmes lectures;. THE HOISTING MACHINERY THE WONDERS OF THESSALY ^2Q Meantime the windlass creaks and the old monks pantuntil the form of Mr. Papadopoulos is silhouetted at thelanding window. Then bony hands reach out, grasp themeshes, haul in the net, and liberate the human fish which hasnibbled the bait of adventure and been. PILLARS, , AM 1 To arrive thus oneself is sufficiently trying to the witness the arrival of another is almost terrifying and thethought of the departure — the inevitable moment of drop-ping off — haunts us throughout the brief hour spent
. The Burton Holmes lectures;. THE HOISTING MACHINERY THE WONDERS OF THESSALY ^2Q Meantime the windlass creaks and the old monks pantuntil the form of Mr. Papadopoulos is silhouetted at thelanding window. Then bony hands reach out, grasp themeshes, haul in the net, and liberate the human fish which hasnibbled the bait of adventure and been. PILLARS, , AM 1 To arrive thus oneself is sufficiently trying to the witness the arrival of another is almost terrifying and thethought of the departure — the inevitable moment of drop-ping off — haunts us throughout the brief hour spent in thecorridors and chapels of Hagios Barlaam. We lind it (Hfti-cult to disabuse our minds of vague convictions that tht liouris come for us to renounce the world, the flesh, and liiedevil ; we feel imperatively called to a higher life ; we almostresolve to }iass the remainder of our (la\s there on thatMeteora cliff top, thus escaping all future temptations and— avoiding the necessity of going down again in that net ! J)0 ^o THE WONDERS OF THESSALY
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