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Title: Mentone, Cairo and Corfu
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Woolson, Constance Fenimore, 1840-1894
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Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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of theworld when all the men were sure-footed, and all thewomen white-armed ; when the sea was hollow (it hasremained that to this day), and when the heavenly pow-ers interested themselves in human affairs upon theslightest occasion. Leave us our faith in them. It canbe preserved, if you like, in the purely poetical com-partment of the mind. For there are all sorts of com-partments : I have met a learned geologist who turnedpale when a mirror was broken by accident in hishouse ; I know a disciple of Darwin who always dep-recates instantly any reference to his good health, lestin some mysterious way it should attract ill-luck. Itseems to me, therefore, that the dear belief that Ho-mers heroes began the world may coexist even withthe bicycle. (Not that I myself have much knowl-edge of this excellent vehicle. But its tandem wheels,swift and business-like, personify the spirit of the age.) At Corfu one is over ones head in the Odyssey. The island is not what it has been, said the English
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illllii;;:::;V;:;:..; :^>fM: THE ISLET CALLED THE SHIP OE ULYSSES 313 lady of the Indian Mail. It is not, indeed! She re-ferred to the days of the Lords High. But the rest ofus refer to Nausicaa; for Corfu is the Scheria of theOdyssey, the home of King Alcinous. Not far beyondthe tomb of Menekrates, at the point called Canone, wehave a view of a deep bay. On the opposite shore ofthis bay enters the stream upon whose bank Ulyssesfirst met the delightful little maiden— the beautifulstream of the river, where were the pools unfailing, andclear and abundant water. And also (but this is awork of supererogation, like feminine testimony in acourt of justice) we have a view of the Phseacian shipwhich was turned into stone by Neptune : Neptunesen approcha, et, le frappant du plat de la main, lechangea en un rocher quil enracina dans le sol, as mycopy of the Odyssey, which happens rather absurdly tobe a French one, translates the passage. The ship,therefore, is now an island; its deck is a

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