Lust and Love on The Island of Rhodes
A surprise meeting in a hilltop cafe brings lust and love to a sailor and whore.
Three months after leaving New York as a galley boy on a Norwegian freighter and stopping at many ports in Egypt, Yemen, Iraq, and Iran, peeling sixty pounds of potatoes every morning washing pots and pans, scrubbing the galley floor three times a day, and enduring the intense heat of the Persian Gulf, we were back in the Mediterranean again, heading west toward Spain. Late, one morning, it was announced we would stop at...