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...he had seen, rising slowly and wonderfully and with boundless beauty above the stubble fields blowing with wildflowers, slowly rising into the sunlight, as centuries before the pilgrims straying over those same fields had watched them rise, the twin spires of Chartres Cathedral – UTV, 12.
Chartres is the setting of Lowry's short story, 'Hotel Room in Chartres' (1934), where two lovers (transparently, Lowry and Jan Gabrial), find again their lost love. |
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now they were climbing themselves, up to the Generalife Gardens – UTV, 293.
Granada shapes itself in the Consul's mind to the city of his dreams, the city where he and Yvonne plighted their troth. The Alhambra Palace (above) rises above and dominates the town, and the Generalife Gardens are beyond and above it. Left: Generalife Gardens, courtesy Flickr user wanderingz / Creative Commons. |