The Amnesia Clinic

Authors: James Scudamore

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“The name fitted the place. Colossal piles of igneous rock and sandstone book-ended the beach, taking turns to cast shadows over it at different times of day, like the elusive hands of twin sundials. And in view of all the local volcanic activity, the name wasn’t so ridiculous an explanation for their existence. How else were the Galápagos formed? One day they weren’t there, and the next, whole landmasses welled up out of the ocean: molten islands, boiling and slopping about on the surface until... they set. In an environment where that was possible, imagining a storm of rocks wasn’t too difficult. If you’d had the strength to overturn one of the huge boulders that studded the shoreline at each end, you might justifiably have expected to find a startled pre-Colombian skeleton underneath, primitive fishing rod stuck in hand since the moment a few civilisations ago when the meteor shower caught him unawares.
But for their matching natural towers, the opposing ends of the beach bore few similarities.MoreLess Read More Read Less