The Condi Terrace in Corfu Town. In this apartement building Edward Lear lived from 1856 - 1858. At that time the Condi terrace was one of the most fashionable residences in Corfu town. In one of his letters Lear writes: We are all more or less swells as live in it. But in a letter from december 6, 1857 after he had been living at Condi terrace for more than a year, Lear reveals that the lack of privacy in the apartement house was beginning to go on his nerves.Then you live in a house, one of the best, that is true, where you here everything from top to bottom: a piano on each side, above and below, maddening you: and you can neither study, nor think, nor even swear properly by reason of the proximity of the neighbours...The constant walking and noise overhead prevents my application to any sort of work, and it is only from 6-8 in the morning that I really can attend to anything..... Probably it was in such a frustrated mood that Lear wrote one of his most famous limericks, The old man from Corfu : There was an old man from Corfu, Who never knew what he should do; So he rushed up and down, Till the sun made him brown, That bewildered Old man of Corfu. The Condi terrace was destroyed in WW II.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:11:58 +0000
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