Travels in Southeastern Europe

The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.

ELBASAN TO SKODRA. the tangled skein of Balkah politics, generally succeeded only in tightening all the others, The flashlight of revelation dies away, but afterwards the face of the land is changed. You cannot see it with Eastern eyes: you never again see it with Western ones. It occurs to you that when the rerolution begins, you might borrow the kavas's revolver, and that there is someone you would like to get rid of, You know that the West would be scandalized by the ideas that are surging through your mind, You ate equally aware that the men with whom you are squatting round a wood fire would be shocked at your inability to go as far as they do. You ate in the greatest danger of finding yourself in the position of the man of whom it was said: 'Hit him hard t He ain't got no friends I' And the flashlight episodes are often so far removed from Western ideas and experiences that it is almost waste of breath to talk about them, for the West thinks it knows better, and flatly refuses to believe in them; or the truth of the tale is proved beyond all doubt, and the West is so immeasurably shocked that it loses all sense of proportion and power of judgment, and blubbers hysterically, as it did, for instance, over Alexander and Draga, For the West has a short memory, and has forgotten the things it did but a few generations ago when it, too, was young; how it carried the heads of fellow-countrymen on pikes and stuck their quarters about the town; almost, if not quite, within living
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The burden of the Balkans / by M. Edith Durham.
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Durham, Mary Edith, 1863-1944.
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London :: Nelson,
[1905]
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Eastern question (Balkan)
Balkan Peninsula -- Description and travel.

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