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“The next day an angry blood-red sun ringed by a dark tempest bounded out of the sand. A fiery east wind arose from the desert; the world turned black.” (p. 139)
“The sun was about to touch the sky’s foundations. The fever of the day wilted, the wind died down, the lake sparkled rose and blue.”
Kazantzakis’s descriptions are always so mesmerizing. (Power to the translator too!)