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Essay Published October 28, 2016

Tree of Idleness

The Cypriot village of Bellapais and the "tree of idleness" were immortalized in Lawrence Durrell's book "Bitter Lemons of Cyprus" in which he described the villagers' favourite activity which was to spend hours and hours in idle chatting under the… Read more

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