Chapter I: Front Matter

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

ALEXANDRIA: A HISTORY AND GUIDE
AGENTS, MESSRS. WHITEHEAD MORRIS
9 FENCHURCH STREET E.C.

HOWARDS END
EDWARD ARNOLD

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PHAROS AND PHARILLON

E. M. FORSTER

Second Edition

PUBLISHED BY LEONARD AND VIRGINIA WOOLF AT THE HOGARTH PRESS HOGARTH HOUSE PARADISE ROAD RICHMOND SURREY

1923

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First published May 1923

Reprinted June 1923

Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. CLARK, LIMITED, Edinburgh.

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Ἑρμῇ ψυχοπομπῷ

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Five of the following chapters are reprinted by the courtesy of _The Nation and the Athenæum_; the remainder have not been previously published in this country.

I am indebted to Mr. C. P. Cavafy for permission to publish his poems, and to Mr. George Valassopoulo for his translation of them.

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CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTION 9

PHAROS:
PHAROS 13
THE RETURN FROM SIWA 24
EPIPHANY 28
PHILO’S LITTLE TRIP 32
CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA 37
ST. ATHANASIUS 43
TIMOTHY THE CAT & TIMOTHY WHITEBONNET 52
THE GOD ABANDONS ANTONY 56

PHARILLON:
ELIZA IN EGYPT 59
COTTON FROM THE OUTSIDE 73
THE DEN 79
BETWEEN THE SUN AND THE MOON 82
THE SOLITARY PLACE 86
THE POETRY OF C. P. CAVAFY 91

CONCLUSION 98

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