tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2562991399335784834.post4088456149941917307..comments2023-10-10T09:44:33.963-07:00Comments on Smitaki: April 22 – Looking for ZorbaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2562991399335784834.post-76348643858769838792015-04-29T09:40:45.727-07:002015-04-29T09:40:45.727-07:00What a great post! I have always loved Zorba's...What a great post! I have always loved Zorba's story. Kazantzakis is on of my favorite authors and Zorba is such a great character. I don't know how you can write a book set in Greece without a Zorba character. It would be like writing the Bible without Jesus. I am very close to finishing a new novel, coincidentally set in Greece, so of course I have a Zorba character. He is a minor character threaded throughout the story, but he actually opens the book. Here is the first paragraph from Fire on the Island:<br /><br />"The sun dropped into the sea so fiery hot it could have boiled it. Stavros, putt-putt-putting along the rocky shore, was certain that it had. Every salty gust felt like the devil’s breath. Not even the splashes off the bow provided any relief as he wiped sweat from his forehead with a red bandana. Usually by sunset he was back in the village sipping an ouzo and recounting the day’s events, but that day his small party had been big-time rowdy, taking their long time drinking GTs and skinny-dipping off Bird Island. He didn’t mind so much—the two girls had nice tops—but the seagulls, in their own mating season, soon had enough of the interruptus intruders, and dive-bombing them, drove them away. Not soon enough for Stavros, nice girl tops or not. He had a date and was still thirty minutes from port. What could he do?"<br /><br /> Timothy Jay Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09584741166351922888noreply@blogger.com