I haven't lived in very many places; just here, and sometimes even this is a country I hardly recognise. And yet, I am very much of Ireland, and when bits of Wicklow or Mayo hills come up as background in a film, it makes me intensely homesick. Even though I'm right here, and they're pretty close by.
There are a couple of places I've been that I imprinted on, too - Valletta and Mdina in Malta, the citadel on Gozo with its quiet and golden stone, Pompeii and Vesuvius - and some places I've never been that, nonetheless having read so much about, seen so many images, I feel as though I know: the acropolis at Athens, Delphi, Olympia.
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Date: 2008-07-01 05:45 pm (UTC)I haven't lived in very many places; just here, and sometimes even this is a country I hardly recognise. And yet, I am very much of Ireland, and when bits of Wicklow or Mayo hills come up as background in a film, it makes me intensely homesick. Even though I'm right here, and they're pretty close by.
There are a couple of places I've been that I imprinted on, too - Valletta and Mdina in Malta, the citadel on Gozo with its quiet and golden stone, Pompeii and Vesuvius - and some places I've never been that, nonetheless having read so much about, seen so many images, I feel as though I know: the acropolis at Athens, Delphi, Olympia.