The Art of Connection

It was a great conversation with a colleague over a recent lunch. We had both studied Geography at university and he mentioned the value of being able to view the world through a geographer’s eyes – looking at the landscape and how it was formed. I suddenly realized that this training had helped me connect different events to help construct the background details for 3 WISE MEN. Here is one example:

My wife and I were enjoying a late lunch in a piazza in Florence when we noticed a priest hurrying past. I could not resist a picture (below). When constructing details for the wider plot, it occurred to me that this innocent priest might play an important part.

“I had just left the Profumo-Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella, and was crossing the piazza outside the church when a priest approached me. He was obviously in a hurry as his cassock was waving wildly behind him. When he reached me, he paused and whispered, ‘I must see you urgently at the Statue of David at 7 o’clock tonight. Be there!’ Then he took off, heading for the hotel nearby. I was taken by surprise.” [extract, pg 192]

I am sure that readers will be equally surprised when they discover what the priest wanted to say to Pierre when he met him at The Statue of David!

 

Places of interest – Florence!

Florence – heart of the Renaissance and cultural heart to Europe. Such an innocent tabloid in 3 WISE MEN – or not! What does this city of beauty and art have to do with the plot? How does it relate to our protagonist? Shh…don’t whisper this to a soul –  this city is cloaked in mysteries and secrets too. Did you know that, for one important product, there is a shop in Florence that is among the oldest in the world? Read on, dear readers!

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