| Airs of Jericho Locks |
---|
1 – 9 | A barge heads downriver to London, stacked high with crates. |
10 – 24 | A man in tweed walks out of the train station, carrying a suitcase heavy with books. |
25 – 39 | A thick haze of smoke hangs over Jericho Locks, coming from someplace up river. |
40 – 49 | Strains of viol music sound over the water. |
50 – 74 | A Devil leans against a lamp-post, smoking a cheroot. |
75 – 79 | A cedar sapling grows in a planter, fed with contraband sunlight. |
80 – 86 | A woman from the Ministry of Upper River Development is surveying the land not owned by the Gondoliers. |
86 – 89 | A woman with pale green teeth is encouraging onlookers not to drink the water in Jericho Locks. |
90 – 94 | Two men walk past in threadbare academic robes. Thirty years ago, they were students. |
95 – 97 | The train pulls into the station, seventeen minutes late and with three windows shattered. |
98 | The train pulls into the station, five whole minutes ahead of schedule. |
99 | The air is so still that one can hear a deep and distant snore. |
100 | A young woman with ambitions to learn poisoning arrives at the train station, clutching a notebook. |