8–12 IX 1773 (population c.900)
9 VIII 2013 (population 161, based on the 2011 census)
RAASAY
To Johnson this, his second island, shone like a redeemed form of the isolate mountains. It turned their “thoughts intirely to another world”.
“This is truly the patriarchal life: this is what we came to find.”
Notes: At Dunvegan SJ says he “tasted lotus” and was in danger of “forgetting that he was ever to depart”. It is here he mentions his dream of a seraglio, which Ken places on Scalpay, along with the ideal university. The tombolo is An Aird on the east coast of Skye near Braes, and its smaller mirror point on Raasay, Àird Ghuithais.
Bibliography
Homer, The Odyssey, Book IX (The Lotus-eaters)
To Johnson this, his second island, shone like a redeemed form of the isolate mountains. It turned their “thoughts intirely to another world”.
“This is truly the patriarchal life: this is what we came to find.”
INTERNAL STATE
OF MIND
island
MEASURE
OF PLEASURE
lotus
LOCAL
DELIGHT
rasp
THE QUEEN
OF RAASAY
flora
THE PERFUME
OF RAASAY
skin-so-soft
“WILD MAN”
ON THE SPECTRUM BETWEEN
PROTEUS & DON QUIXOTE
McCruslick
An Aird
EVERYONE’S
A WINNER
tombolo
OF MIND
island
MEASURE
OF PLEASURE
lotus
LOCAL
DELIGHT
rasp
THE QUEEN
OF RAASAY
flora
THE PERFUME
OF RAASAY
skin-so-soft
“WILD MAN”
ON THE SPECTRUM BETWEEN
PROTEUS & DON QUIXOTE
McCruslick
An Aird
EVERYONE’S
A WINNER
tombolo
Notes: At Dunvegan SJ says he “tasted lotus” and was in danger of “forgetting that he was ever to depart”. It is here he mentions his dream of a seraglio, which Ken places on Scalpay, along with the ideal university. The tombolo is An Aird on the east coast of Skye near Braes, and its smaller mirror point on Raasay, Àird Ghuithais.
Bibliography
Homer, The Odyssey, Book IX (The Lotus-eaters)