House Above the World

Open to all sides, the House is a kind of balloon-gondola suspended in

the brilliant sky over the motley dance of the world. From the perfect

curve of hte bay below, a nameless energy gathers up the weeds, the

grass and the sun, sweeps on the pines and the cypresses, the dusty

olive-trees and the eucalyprtus to the very walls of the house

According to the season, white dog-roses and mimosa bloom at the heart of

this offering, or the kind of honeysuckle that spreads its fragrance

over the walls on summer nights.

White sheets and red roofs, the sea smiling under a sky pinned without a

wrinkle from one edge of the horizon to the other - the huge bay windows

are trained on a carnival of colours and lights, day and night.

But in the distance, a line of high purple mountains joins the bay and

its extreme slope and contains this intoxication within its far contour.

Here, everyone has their joy to conquor, every day

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