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SoM:
You posted a quote (one that I liked the most by her) but not in its entirety. I'm going to re-post it because I think the last part you left out says a lot about the Macedonians, for better or worse. (I put the part you didn't include in bold).
You posted a quote (one that I liked the most by her) but not in its entirety. I'm going to re-post it because I think the last part you left out says a lot about the Macedonians, for better or worse. (I put the part you didn't include in bold).
I had recognized in Macedonia a uniquely beautiful life of the people. When the Macedonians loved or sang or worshipped God or watched their sheep, they brought to the business in hand poetic minds that would not believe in appearances and probed them for reality, that possessed as a birthright that quality which Keats believed to be above all others in forming a ‘Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously.’ ‘Negative Capability’ he called it, and it made a man ‘capable of being in uncertainties, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.’”
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