GRIFFIN AND SABINE Griffin — Its good to get in touch with you at last. Could I have one of your fish postcards? I think you were right -- the wine glass has more impact than the cup. -- Sabine Griffin Moss is an artist living in London who makes postcards for a living. He is unhappy and lonely, though he is unaware of these feelings. His life is changed forever when he receives a cryptic postcard from Sabine Strohem, a woman he has never met. Like Griffin, she is an artist (she illustrates postage stamps) and comes from a fictional group of small islands in the South Pacific known as the Sicmon Islands (Arbah, Katie, Katin, Ta Fin, Quepol and Typ). The two begin to correspond regularly. Griffin comes to realize that he is in love with Sabine, who reciprocates his feelings, and that they are soulmates. However, his growing uncertainty as to Sabines true nature and the changes her presence has caused in his life develop into fear and he ends up rejecting her offer for him to come see her in person. He comes to the conclusion that Sabine is a figment of his imagination, created from his own loneliness. It appears to be true until another postcard arrives from Sabine with an ominous promise that if he will not come to her, she will go to him: Griffin — Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at a whim. If you will not join me, then I will come to you. -- Sabine In the second volume Sabine moves to Griffins house in London while he wanders through Europe, North Africa, and Asia, backwards through layers of ancient civilizations — and of himself. In the final volume, the mystery of the two artists deepens and their questions grow more urgent. New obstacles (including a sinister intruder) test the tenacity of their passion, and in each letter or postcard, painting and prose are even more richly intertwined. by Nick Bantock 1991 Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence 1992 Sabines Notebook: The Extraordinary Correspondence Continues 1993 The Golden Mean: The Extraordinary Correspondence Concludes 2001 The Gryphon: The Extraordinary Correspondence Rediscovered 2002 Alexandria:The Extraordinary Correspondence Unfolds 2003 The Morning Star: The Extraordinary Correspondence Illuminated
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