The Mysterious Commission (2012)
“Everything was there, but everything was the wrong way round. There was the train, but he was looking from the train. There was the house, but he was looking at the house. There was the gap in the trees, hut it was quite close up on him instead of quite far away. And the house was just a house, precisely as the train had been just a train until he got those binoculars on it. A large house, but totally anonymous. It rang no bell with him. But then there was no reason why it should. He had never ...once been able to stand back from it and view it coup d’oeil before.
All this – if only in the suddenness of its appearing – was disconcerting and confusing. Honeybath sat goggling through the window, with his litter of abruptly needless maps around him. And then the train – which, after the habit of pausing trains, had not quite lost momentum after all – the train gave itself an indignant twitch, and within seconds had achieved an accelerated motion in the direction of the now westering sun.MoreLess
All this – if only in the suddenness of its appearing – was disconcerting and confusing. Honeybath sat goggling through the window, with his litter of abruptly needless maps around him. And then the train – which, after the habit of pausing trains, had not quite lost momentum after all – the train gave itself an indignant twitch, and within seconds had achieved an accelerated motion in the direction of the now westering sun.MoreLess
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