The Noise Revealed
“If the latter, he could only assume the imagination in question was limited. The buildings here were functional oblong blocks - soulless and ugly, with sharp corners and edges - arranged in repetitive rows of identical windows and tight-lipped doorways, while the roads were wide and straight, dividing lines burned in asphalt. The high-pitched wail of a guitar clawed at the night, shredding the tranquillity into harried tatters, and the world resounded to the rhythm of a hundred drums.They stood... at the very edge of the developed area, with the boxlike buildings stretching away to their left and what looked to be open ground to their right, though Philip could only see a little way into the darkness. No streetlights were in evidence. A score of fires held the night at bay, some of them in braziers, others more haphazard - bonfires built of heaped-up rubbish and foraged sticks and undergrowth - while the largest of all had clearly been a car, now set ablaze. The fires dotted the pavements and side streets, and the fringe of the gently sloping wasteland beyond.MoreLess
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