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| ALEXANDRIA by NIGHT |
| Day 2 Early morning breakfast at hotel. Then ready to enjoy the city tour in Alexandria by visiting “ The Greco –Roman Museum, El Morsi Abu El Abbas Mosque, The citadel of Qaite bay ” Lunch at local restaurant on The Beach “ Mix Grills “ Transfer by Bus back to hotel. In the evening get ready to ride a comfortable carriage waiting for you front of the hotel drive you to have a round trip in Alexandria by night then enjoy a luxury Sea Food dinner & Wine on yacht . After this wonderful evening back to your hotel. --GAT Tours ("Experience the Joy and Tenderness of Egypt") |
| And as for our future, one will hardly find us again on the paths of those Egyptian youths who endanger temples by night, embrace statues, and want by all means to unveil, uncover, and put into a bright light whatever is kept concealed for good reasons. No, this bad taste, this will to truth, to "truth at any price, ” this youthful madness in the love of truth, have lost their charm for us: for that we are too serious, too merry, too burned, too profound. We no longer believe that truth remains truth when the veils are withdrawn. —Friedrich Nietzsche |
| It is not hard, writing at this remove in time, to realize that it had all already happened, had been ordained in such a way and in no other. This was so to speak, only its “coming to pass”—its stage of manifestation. But the scenario had already been devised, somewhere, the actors chosen, the timing rehearsed down to the last detail in the mind of that invisible author—which perhaps would prove to be only the city itself: the Alexandria of the human estate. (Clea 223) --Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet |
| My spirit trembles with joy as I contemplate this city of light which a divine accident might create before our very eyes at any moment! Here art will find its true form and place, and the artist can play like a fountain without contention, without even trying. (Clea 141) --Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet |
| In this reign was finished the lighthouse on the island of Pharos, as a guide to ships when entering the harbour of Alexandria by night. The navigation of the waters of the Red Sea, along which the wind blows hard from the north for nine months in the year, was found so dangerous by the little vessels from the south of Arabia, that they always chose the most southerly port in which they could meet the Egyptian buyers. The merchants with their bales of goods found a journey on camels through the desert, where the path is marked only by the skeletons of the animals that have died upon the route, less costly than a coasting voyage. Hence, when Philadelphus had made the whole of Upper Egypt to the cataracts at Aswan (Syênê) as quiet and safe as the Delta, he made a new port on the rocky coast of the Red Sea, nearly two hundred miles to the south of Cosseir, and named it Berenicê after his mother. (HISTORY OF EGYPT From 330 B.C. to the Present Time By S. RAPPOPORT, Doctor of Philosophy, Basel -- Member of the Ecole Langues Orientales, Paris; Russian, German, French Orientalist and Philologist -- VOL. X., Part B.) |
| He could hear, like the distant reverberations of the city’s memory, the voice of Plotinus speaking, not of flight away from intolerable temporal conditions but towards a new light, a new city of Light. “This is no journey for the feet, however. Look into yourself, withdraw into yourself and look.” But this was the one act of which he now knew himself for ever incapable. (Justine 181) --Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet |
| Originally there was a lot of reverb in the piece, to increase the sense of confusion, but I decided it was too much (decide for yourself: Original Alexandria by Night). Jerusalem also gave birth to the very spare Vigil, the difficult but rewarding Wailing Wall, and the ultra-dense and over-the top Madding Crowd. (Of those, I would love to see Wailing Wall as a live performance.) |
| Half-heard and unknown (indeed perhaps unknowable) sounds emanate from unseen places and drift into the ancient streets of an exotic and often dangerous city. This piece grew out of Jerusalem Weeps... |