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A PLF Pilgrimage to the Abbey of St Wandrille
Ed Ricketts has been travelling again and taking the opportunity to follow in the Paddy’s footsteps, this time at the Abbey of St Wandrille where Paddy spent much time writing, and described in… more →
Patrick Leigh Fermor
A bookish challenge...
wrote 13 hours ago: I’ve probably mentioned it before, but I am a bookaholic. This habit means that I get up to th … more →
A PLF Pilgrimage to the Abbey of St Wandrille
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wrote 9 months ago: Ed Ricketts has been travelling again and taking the opportunity to follow in the Paddy’s foot … more →
‘…A Wave of the Wand…’, Part Two
wrote 11 months ago: Patrick Leigh Fermor. The first part of this post was published on May 30. The writer and polymath P … more →
The best of intentions
wrote 1 year ago: The Shelf of Knowledge Book Status: April, 2012, 50 books to read ‘A journey of a thousand miles be … more →
A Time To Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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wrote 1 year ago: A Time To Keep Silence – Patrick Leigh Fermor NYRB Classics, 2011 (first published: 1957) Buy: … more →
The Shelf of Knowledge
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wrote 1 year ago: Finally I have collated all my unread books into one list and, to make it easier for me, I’ve … more →
The troubled waters of the mind grow still and clear
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wrote 1 year ago: Paddy in Greece photographed by Joan Don’t you feel like me that with the passing of Paddy as … more →
A long stillness scooped out of the very heart of the sound
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wrote 1 year ago: On this tenth anniversary of 9/11. by Patrick Leigh Fermor Conventual High Mass was at ten every mor … more →
An excerpt from A Time To Keep Silence by Patrick Leigh Fermor
wrote 1 year ago: With curiosity and misgiving I walked up hill from the Rouen-Yvetot road towards the Abbey of St. Wa … more →
Spare And Sublime: A Monastery's Spell Of 'Silence'
wrote 1 year ago: Last summer I was struck by a severe case of wanderlust. I wanted urgently to be on my own in the wo … more →
Honoring Patrick Leigh Fermor: Review Essay
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wrote 1 year ago: This is quite an excellent essay that focuses on Paddy’s writing more than many other profiles … more →
Scholar in the wilds - a profile of Patrick Leigh Fermor
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wrote 2 years ago: A comprehensive profile of Patrick Leigh Fermor. By James Campbell. First published in The Guardian … more →
Adjusting to quiet - A Time to Keep Silence
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wrote 2 years ago: Many of you will know that I was recently in the Holy Land on a Pilgrimage. Seven days following in … more →
Numbered and bound copies of A Time To Keep Silence
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wrote 2 years ago: I received the following note from Phil Holden, who resides in Athens, pointing out that A Time to K … more →
He Never Talk... Silence Story
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wrote 2 years ago: Sitting in front of each other, no one know what to say, not a single idea, a real weired silence th … more →
New York Review Books
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wrote 2 years ago: I know, I know—I’ve been gone for forever. Nearly four months! Sorry everyone. What prompted … more →
Philhellene's progress: The writing of Patrick Leigh Fermor
wrote 3 years ago: As you know I trawl the net for Paddy related material to create the best online source of informati … more →
Writer and WWII hero honoured with Order of the Phoenix
wrote 3 years ago: Report of the presentation of the Greek Order of the Phoenix to Paddy First published Ekathimerini o … more →
Dull dreams
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wrote 3 years ago: I dreamed last week that I had checked out A Time to Keep Silence from the library, on Litlove’s rec … more →
