Look around (Surveying)
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From: Surveying (Location)
Is anything out of the ordinary?
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Wherever you are, you are here.
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Abandoned and apart
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Something clinks by your shoe: slivers of superheated brass. The spoor of your ambassadorial prey. The Embassy is not here now, but it has been here, and may, perhaps, return.Description summary:
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A Shortcut in Contravention of the Possible.
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| Sorrywell | […] a wretched little labyrinth […] strung together by washing lines, […] a marionette […] of cheaply constructed housing[…] bloomers flap disconsolately on their lines, long-dry and ownerless.
[…] Do they know their laundry wavers in the breeze, waiting for them to come home? […] |
| The Rendering Yards | […] steeped in the ancient, layered smell of offal and old fat: a square mile dedicated to the bloody art of butchery. Usually, the […] odour is accompanied by […] nightmarish sounds of metal on meat, […] animals' last gasps – today, mercifully, the yards are silent. […]
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| The Alleys Behind Big King Square | Impromptu fighting-rings made of cardboard and broken glass occupy darkened corners of the alleys […] the detritus of a thousand illegal […] weasel-fights. […]
[…] the run-down doorsteps of deshabille private member's clubs afford easy access to the sport […] |
| Bad Monkey Row | Bad Monkey Row is a sinuous line of rotting townhouses and crowded tenements, interspersed with cramped little alehouses and seedy bookmakers. Betting slips flutter across the cobbles, hazed by the heat. […] |
| Stonymonk Street | Stonymonk Street is a row of shabby homes, asymmetrical in their defects. You pass a sonnet of bent timbers and warped brick, lines and lines of bay windows with rippled glass, their frames bowing under the weight of too many additional storeys. […] |
| Childcake Street | Childcake Street is defined by its roofscape: an appealing range of slopes and valleys, with garret windows and sturdy washing lines […]. At street level, there is little to distinguish it from any other residential crawl: a small bakery, a smaller well […] |
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