The Greek passion; by Kazantzakis Nikos 1883-1957

Author:Kazantzakis, Nikos, 1883-1957
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster
Published: 1954-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

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THE wroow's BLOOD revived the fury of the Agha. He saw red; he was still holding the knife. His arm was running with blood to the elbow. He called Hussein:

"Go down to the cell, take Manolios and lead him to the plane tree. Sound the trumpet, let the giaours come and watch him. Bring Youssoufaki out under the plane tree, so that he may see, too. Murderer or not, hang the wretch. Bring me the whip, I'll go down alone; I'll smash their bones. That'll relieve me! Possibly I'll hang them this morning, all five of them, one after the other. Guilty or not! I'll hang them all, all! Why should they live, when my Youssoufaki is stretched out there? Run!"

His eyes again filled with tears. Turning, he placed the bloody knife among the roses on the body of Youssoufaki.

"Take it, my Youssoufaki," he said.

He kneeled down, leaned against the litde iron bedstead, and began to smoke. He shut his eyes. Through his mind passed fields, mountains, villages. He was on the road again, making again the journey from Lycovrissi to Smyrna. Now in a carriage, now on muleback, now in that devil's machine brought in by the people of the West, curse them! One morning, miracle! Palaces, mosques, bazaars, thousands of people, music, gardens, the sea! 1 hen all vanished. There remained only a cafe by the waterside. Its doors were open. It was hot. The sun was setting. Seated in a circle on mats, carefully washed aghas with their clean clothes, their narghiles, their black-dyed mustaches. In the center, throned on a high stool, what does the Agha of Lycovrissi discover as he comes in? Youssoufaki singing: "Doiinia tahir, rouya tahir, aman, aman'l The cafe, too, vanished, with the aghas, the mats and the

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