The Crack (2013)
“They rolled down through the Village and ended up in the foothills, one of which was crowned triumphally by Marble Arch.
Waters – a prominent ecologist and anti-pollutionist – opened his eyes and found himself in what seemed to be a giant rubbish heap. The tiny moment of pleasure that came to him when he recognized the new scrumple-up disposable I.C.I. beercan a few inches from his face was succeeded by terror when he realized that there were several thousand of them – and that they had been th...rown up into a towering mountain over a hundred feet high. A thin trickle of lager ran like lava from the summit of the uncertain volcano.
A muffled scream showed the whereabouts of Waters’s family. He picked himself up with care and edged round the face of the mountain. Beneath him, as his vision cleared, he was able to see in the brown light, so reminiscent of his worst smog nightmares, a flattish terrain stretching out down Park Lane. What looked like a wrecked funfair stood forlornly amongst the fallen trees in Hyde Park.MoreLess
Waters – a prominent ecologist and anti-pollutionist – opened his eyes and found himself in what seemed to be a giant rubbish heap. The tiny moment of pleasure that came to him when he recognized the new scrumple-up disposable I.C.I. beercan a few inches from his face was succeeded by terror when he realized that there were several thousand of them – and that they had been th...rown up into a towering mountain over a hundred feet high. A thin trickle of lager ran like lava from the summit of the uncertain volcano.
A muffled scream showed the whereabouts of Waters’s family. He picked himself up with care and edged round the face of the mountain. Beneath him, as his vision cleared, he was able to see in the brown light, so reminiscent of his worst smog nightmares, a flattish terrain stretching out down Park Lane. What looked like a wrecked funfair stood forlornly amongst the fallen trees in Hyde Park.MoreLess
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