Father Petros — spells of silence
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Father Petros — spells of silence
Megisti Lavra, Mount Athos.
“We stayed up late in my room chatting, long spells of silence. What counts in friendship is being together. Sometimes he fell asleep but continued talking unintelligibly.”
— Michael M. Nikoletseas, The Caique from Lavra: Shipwrecked
In the Iliad, Achilles sings to the lyre while Patroclus sits opposite him in silence, waiting for his song to end:
Πάτροκλος δέ οἱ οἶος ἐναντίος ἧστο σιωπῇ,
δέγμενος Αἰακίδην ὁπότε λήξειεν ἀείδων.
— Iliad IX.190–191
