Adventures in the Looking Glass

At 3.30pm it started to get dark – a gradual turn from daylight so bright you winced, to a gloomth that sucked the light from the buildings. I looked west out the 9th floor window of my hotel room and saw the approaching clouds. Grey-black and almost bruise-yellow in places, they created a sickly contrast with the pinkish smog tone of the sky to the east.

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”I wish they were not so beautiful; if they were not so beautiful and so inaccessible to me, then I should feel less lonely, although, after all, I came here in order to be lonely.”

The Smile of Winter, Angela Carter

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” Simplicity! Simplicity! Simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand,; instead of a million count half a dozen… Simplify, simplify.”

Walden, Thoreau