"This book is a collection of objects that once populated the world, but do so no longer."
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I'm about halfway through this collection of 85 short essays about defunct and superceded objects and the ideas they manifested. I'm really enjoying it, and while each essay is brief, the information density of reading them in one consecutive stretch is cognitively demanding, so I'm taking a brief break to rest my ?
The darkness throbbed with the clamour of church bells.
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"The letter flutters on the desk, almost keeping time with the footsteps thundering across the floor."
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Celia approached the vicar, who stood alone for a few moments in the shadow of the rounded arch above the doorway, sheltered from the rising wind.
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"The world is in darkness. The hood the guards have placed over her head scratches at her cheeks and neck."
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There always seems to be more roadkill just after the weekend.
By a local author and set in this area.
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"The last embers of the fiery sunset danced across the surface of the Solway Firth, with the tips of its fingers illuminating the great stone fort at its edge."
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