Hemispheres (2010)
“Wandering Albatross (Diomedia exulans) You should try your colleagues’ solution. Sarah laughs, gest uring with her golden head towards the far Nissen hut. It might help with the insomnia.
A solution of forty per cent ethanol in water? I throw back. Don’t touch nothing stronger than beer, me. Not for fifteen years.
She looks quizzical.
It didn’t agree with me, I say. Or rather, I didn’t agree with it.
Our voices are stretched out like a flysheet over the constant noise. Imagine t...en thousand claw hammers squeaking ten thousand nails out of ten thousand gobby bits of timber. Imagine all the demons in hell gabbling and cackling and speaking in tongues.
Imagine it, but even then you won’t come close.
Bird Island, South Georgia, is the biggest breeding colony I’ve ever seen, a sprawling shanty town of nesting seabirds. Gannets and skuas and five kinds of albatross, all camped on these untidy mounds of nest with scarcely enough room to turn round, reaching to jab with thuggish bills at anything that encroaches.MoreLess
A solution of forty per cent ethanol in water? I throw back. Don’t touch nothing stronger than beer, me. Not for fifteen years.
She looks quizzical.
It didn’t agree with me, I say. Or rather, I didn’t agree with it.
Our voices are stretched out like a flysheet over the constant noise. Imagine t...en thousand claw hammers squeaking ten thousand nails out of ten thousand gobby bits of timber. Imagine all the demons in hell gabbling and cackling and speaking in tongues.
Imagine it, but even then you won’t come close.
Bird Island, South Georgia, is the biggest breeding colony I’ve ever seen, a sprawling shanty town of nesting seabirds. Gannets and skuas and five kinds of albatross, all camped on these untidy mounds of nest with scarcely enough room to turn round, reaching to jab with thuggish bills at anything that encroaches.MoreLess
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