felinism

Updated: May 25, 2025

That was the road of his happy youth. Straight ahead in a direct line was Naples with its smoking mountain, its music and its swarthy dancing girls with hoop earrings; further on, the Isles of Greece; at the foot of an Aquatic Street, Constantinople; and still beyond, bordering the great liquid court of the Black Sea, a series of ports where the Argonauts sunk in a seething mass of races, fondled by the felinism of slaves, the voluptuosity of the Orientals, and the avarice of the Jews were fast forgetting their origin.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - Mare Nostrum (Our Sea): A Novel