# Pharos and Pharillon

BY THE SAME AUTHOR
ALEXANDRIA: A HISTORY AND GUIDE Agents, Messrs. Whitehead Morris 9 Fenchurch Street E.C.
HOWARDS END Edward Arnold
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
First published May 1923
Reprinted June 1923
Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh.
Ἑρμῆ ψυχοπομπῶ
​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.
CONTENTS
* PAGE
* 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
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