THE BEACH
As you make your way down the slope from Simeiz Park to the sea, there’s a signpost at a fork in the path, bearing the inscription:
Men’s Beach / Women’s Beach
Under ‘Men’s Beach’ there’s an arrow pointing this way, and under ‘Women’s Beach’ there’s an arrow pointing that way…
This is so that people, feeling male or female as the case may be, don’t find themselves where they’ve no right to be. So that the people lay their bodies out on the hot pebbles precisely where their bodies belong...
The ‘orthodox’ descend the path to the blue sea without regard to s*x or nationality, until they reach this signpost. And when one of the ‘orthodox’ people is a man, he stops by the signpost and gazes at the women’s side, and the poor fellow hesitates, thinking that it w
