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Playing With Dynamite & Deception., June 11, 2006
This review is from: Greek Fire (Thorndike British Favorites) (Paperback)
As the motorboat entered the lagoon, the beam from the lighthouse swept over them as it swung across the water. The rising moon was half-full, its light outlining the coast and deepening the shadows. They were nearing the island. Tulla is a Greek Orthodox who may want to take the trip to those islands on the other side of the world. She likes to relate how her ancestors all live in Greece. Since she is allergic to the sun, it appears that exploring Kauai, Ouha, Maui, and Rainbow Falls would definitely be an adventure attempting to stay in the shade.
Some would say "those were the days" when Chuck had written such strange anecdotes concerning Karl, that he really is his son. Then I voted for a Starfish for him and the son who played guitar with a church band. Chuck played trombone; Karl played CDs. He's the one with no talent. When he took the younger son to a Greek restaurant for a birthday meal, he was the only one, he told me, who drank the ouzo, a Greek liquer. I thought how great! For a non-drinker, that sounded like a sophisticated thing to do and to tell a relative stranger. How wrong I was about him all along as we took our first foray into danger.
At the college we had a young man who said that he was from Greece to visit the campus. A group of female students took him to the dean's residence to inquire if we could escort him to the county fair. It was a small town, easy to walk where you need to go, as is Greece in some places. The dean acquiesed to our request, saying "I'll carry him to the bus station when you return." Our Greek visitor wasn't a slightly built person, though not fat. He looked at me and asked, "How can he carry me?" That is a collolial way of speaking which means he would drive him there in his car. We had an exciting evening entertaining our foreign friend and he wasn't in any hurry to be carried anywhere.
Greek fire can be dynamite, like lava flowing from a volcano at Mauna Loa. Can dreams come true? The right person shows up at the right time with a solution to your problem. He continually fabricated his importance before and after. I was a dupe to believe in him which causes much concernation now that I can't accept the fact that I was duped by them all. It was not lies exactly, only speculating. His philosophy was "Always keep them uncertain of the deception. Be evasive but gracious and they'll believe anything said with sincerity."
The affair in Corfu was all a mass of confusion. Had he been honest all along, things might have turned out differently. But they just had to have their games, and she was lonely enough to believe what she was told. How can one intelligent woman be so dense. That's the hard part to understand. Usually, this type of prevaricator is found out in the early stages of a relationship, but this dunce believed the fish tale and swallowed it whole. Winston was right when he called her an innocent. Only the shrewd will survive this cat-and-mouse game.
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