The Coconut of Damocles

Who was Damocles anyway?

XXXPresumably I need a picture or two in the text

The sub-comic idea pervading the title

You’ve probably heard the expression The Sword of Damocles, but perhaps can’t quite remember the exact meaning behind it. Damocles wasn’t the King himself. He the poet in the court of King xx, who became a little disenchanted to find his life and position as the leader of his population praised without reserve, when in fact life, his life as king, indeed, was full of difficulty and responsibility. So one day he sat Damocles the poet on his throne and hung a sword, kept in place only by a horse’s hair. And told him to write some poetry about the King’s life with the consciousness in mind of the fact that death hung over him at any moment. It certainly must have changed his attitude…

It’s an apt xxdilemma for a travel writer, really. It’s no good praising the King’s life - or that Caribbean hotel - to the hilt (so to speak), because it won’t serve either you or, in our age of xx, the reading public. We are here to review elements of the Caribbean in a way that readers can understand what they are trying to achieve and whether they are successful at it. We are there to help people find, not the best hotel in the islands, but the best hotel for them. For surely a good piece of travel writing will show to the person suited to a hotel, restaurant or experience, even a beach bar, that it is the best hotel, restaurant or experience for them, possibly even according to their mood of the day.

At the Online Beach Bar we will pursue, relentlessly, the bets of the Caribbean

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