"But after a while they stopped taling about her and discussed instead who was going to win the Grand National. For, as Mr. Ferguson was saying at that minute in Luxor, it is not the past that matters but the future."
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
Imaginary Place of the day:
Alcina's Island - can be found, according to some travellers, near the coast of Japan; according to others, in the Caribbean. A large island, the size of Sicily, its flora is abundant: woods of laurel, palm, cedar, myrtle and orange shade the low hills and the meadows.
Alcina's Island - can be found, according to some travellers, near the coast of Japan; according to others, in the Caribbean. A large island, the size of Sicily, its flora is abundant: woods of laurel, palm, cedar, myrtle and orange shade the low hills and the meadows.
Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, Ferrara, 1516; George Friederic Handel & A. Marchi, Alcina, first performance London, 1735.
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