Tag: Auberon Halfcourt

• Ouzo

  

  If the drinks dotted liberally through Against the Day represent a boozy symphony, ouzo appears as a major-key motif late in the piece. We first find Cyprian drinking it among “fair limbs and spring sunrises” in Salonica: “It was the absence of all hesitation here that impressed Cyprian, setting aside the ouzo and hashish whose…

  mjhorn

  January 11, 2023

  Against The Day, Other spirits

  Auberon Halfcourt, Cyprian Latewood, Greece, Reef Traverse, Yashmeen Halfcourt

• Mavrodaphne

  

  One spring late in Against the Day, Auberon Halfcourt and Umeki Tsurigane find Yashmeen, Reef, and baby Ljubica on the Greek island of Corfu. They dine “in a taverna down by the harbour in Garitsa.” Page 975: They sat at a long table and ate tsingarelli and polenta and yaprakia and a chicken stoufado with…

  mjhorn

  February 27, 2017

  Against The Day, Wine

  Auberon Halfcourt, Corfu, Greece, Reef Traverse, Umeki Tsurigane, Yashmeen Halfcourt