Girgenti: footnotes and forget-me-nots
Introducing Girgenti At Girgenti you can still hear two girls sing. Girgenti followed Paestum From Thimble Row to Discoveries:
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Discoveries at Gigenti
This is my final film on Girgenti:
A room with a view
A few selected passages or sentences from ‘A room with a view’ by E M Forster:
Girgenti followed Paestum
It might have been the other way around: Paestum may have followed Girgenti. Nabokov once said that he “did not believe in time”. What follows is Girgenti [in the form … Continue reading Girgenti followed Paestum
Girgenti
Girgenti followed Paestum in a blue sky summer that was not little. Beneath this sky two girls sang. It was a beautiful summer.
Thesis 1389
Thesis 1389, and that of Dr Iain Smith give an account of Girgenti following the death of Captain John Cheape:
the Captain died
Captain John Cheape died in 1850. Unmarried and with no children, he left Girgenti to six Scottish hospitals. Girgenti was then sold and re-sold. Summer was giving way to autumn.
after the Napoleonic wars
After serving as a Captain in the Napoleonic wars Captain John Cheape “retired” to the Girgenti of his imagination:
it was a beautiful summer
This is a family film from summer 2018. I disagree with those who may argue that to be a professional, academic or scientist that it is better for us to … Continue reading it was a beautiful summer
with a blue sky day
Summer followed Paestum with a blue sky day:
and summer followed
Paestum is a special place for Peter and Sian as we visited it when on our honeymoon in Amalfi. Peter’s favourite photograph of Sian was taken at Paestum that summer: … Continue reading and summer followed