Two comedians, Cyprus and the journey back to our humanity

Lawrence Durrell begins his book Bitter Lemons with one of the most memorable reflections on travel ever written: “Journeys, like artists, are born and not made.” The best journeys, he suggests, do not merely carry us outward; they carry us inward as well. “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.”

That line has stayed with me for much of my life, perhaps because Cyprus itself has always been such a journey: beautiful, wounded, hospitable, suspicious, lyrical, divided...