An extract from Monsieur - Or the Prince of Darkness by Lawrence Durrell. Part of The Avignon Quintet.
In those days there were no real suburbs - the desert began almost at the gates of Alexandria and with it of course the damp enervating heat which soaked and bathed one, until one could feel the …
Update 2022-01: Check out library Fli.
Synchronously execute a process and wait for it to return; capturing the exit code, stdout, and stderr. It’s a snippet that I often reach for but I can never find it on the internet. Dotnet makes it more difficult than it really should be.
let result = …New Zealand and Australia have had a long-standing arrangement where citizens can just hop on the plane and travel to the other country to holiday, live indefinitely, and work. No need for paperwork or rubber-stamped approvals beforehand. Assuming the individual has no criminal record and is free of …
George Seferis. 1941.
After the Germans had taken Crete
The new moon came out over Alexandria
with the old moon in her arms
while we were walking towards the Gate of the Sun
in the heart’s darkness - three friends.
Who wants to bathe in the waters of Proteus now?
We looked for metamorphosis in …
I spent the day up in the Maniototo area exploring and shooting landscapes. …