It is 6.30 on a crisp autumn evening. The air, still warm despite chilly gusts of wind that announce the coming front of cold weather.
The rose evening light gives everything around me a dreamlike palpable quality, as if I were surrounded by marshmallows.
I walk. My eyes wander towards a virile tree in front of me. The branches, heavy with leaves, invite me closer. A single leaf stands out. It’s large. Stretched out like a man’s hand. It is a noble dark green colour. Through the middle of the leaf run veins of blood.
As the evening light shines through the leaf I see the blood haemorrhaging out into its fragile green flesh.
As if I hoped to save it from a certain death, I reach out and pick it, plucking it neatly with a small snap from the tree.
Today, on Putney Heath, a leaf died.
Trip to Ultima Thule
viernes, 11 de noviembre de 2011
What is Ultima Thule?
The term Ultima Thule in medieval geographies denoted any distant place located beyond the "borders of the known world".
In this blog I will always be striving to go beyond the borders of my known world through my writing.
I will be posting things I have written both for my degree and in my own time.
Comments, opinions and criticism are always welcome :)
In this blog I will always be striving to go beyond the borders of my known world through my writing.
I will be posting things I have written both for my degree and in my own time.
Comments, opinions and criticism are always welcome :)
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