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\u00a9GIORGOS SFAKIANAKIS, Project: Kois Associated Architects<\/p>\n
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“As you set out for Ithaka<\/div>\n
hope your road is a long one,<\/div>\n
full of adventure, full of discovery.<\/div>\n
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,<\/div>\n
angry Poseidon\u2014don\u2019t be afraid of them:<\/div>\n
you\u2019ll never find things like that on your way<\/div>\n
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,<\/div>\n
as long as a rare excitement<\/div>\n
stirs your spirit and your body.<\/div>\n
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,<\/div>\n
wild Poseidon\u2014you won\u2019t encounter them<\/div>\n
unless you bring them along inside your soul,<\/div>\n
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.<\/div>\n
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Hope your road is a long one.<\/div>\n
May there be many summer mornings when,<\/div>\n
with what pleasure, what joy,<\/div>\n
you enter harbors you\u2019re seeing for the first time;<\/div>\n
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations<\/div>\n
to buy fine things,<\/div>\n
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,<\/div>\n
sensual perfume of every kind\u2014<\/div>\n
as many sensual perfumes as you can;<\/div>\n
and may you visit many Egyptian cities<\/div>\n
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.<\/div>\n
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Keep Ithaka always in your mind.<\/div>\n
Arriving there is what you\u2019re destined for.<\/div>\n
But don\u2019t hurry the journey at all.<\/div>\n
Better if it lasts for years,<\/div>\n
so you\u2019re old by the time you reach the island,<\/div>\n
wealthy with all you\u2019ve gained on the way,<\/div>\n
not expecting Ithaka to make you rich.<\/div>\n
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Ithaka gave you the marvelous journey.<\/div>\n
Without her you wouldn’t have set out.<\/div>\n
She has nothing left to give you now.<\/div>\n
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And if you find her poor, Ithaka won\u2019t have fooled you.<\/div>\n
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,<\/div>\n
you\u2019ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a9GIORGOS SFAKIANAKIS, Project: Kois Associated Architects “As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon\u2014don\u2019t be afraid of them: you\u2019ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a … Continue reading Cavafy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,8],"tags":[9,11,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/llagnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/llagnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/llagnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llagnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llagnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/llagnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/llagnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/llagnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llagnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/llagnes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}