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 our youth
with desires that played like big fish
in seas suddenly shrinking;
we believed in the body’s omnipotence.
And now the new moon has come out embracing
the old; and the beautiful island …

I spent the day up in the Maniototo area exploring and shooting landscapes. This was my first time shooting on film. I used an Olympus OM-2N 35mm film camera with a 28mm Zuiko lens.

The base Dockerfile I use for ASP.NET Core web applications. This is suitable for both F# and C# apps. Below I detail some design decisions and Docker best practices.

FROM mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:5.0-alpine AS build

WORKDIR /app

# Copy source code and compile
COPY ./ ./
RUN dotnet restore

RUN dotnet publish --configuration Release -o bin

# Build runtime image
FROM …

For people who fell in love with the Alexandria Quartet or the Avignon Quintet and would like to explore more of that Hellenic world.

I found Diego Delgado Duatis’s doctoral thesis The Hellenic World of Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell a superb read. It paints a picture as to what as going on in Durrell’s life during his time in Greece and discusses the poets, authors, and people who influence Durrell and Henry Miller. The thesis is an easy read and includes quotes a lot of …