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Dulltown, UK: Today's quotation is from Cordwainer Smith's story The Ballad of Lost C'mell:
Perhaps the policewoman thought that raw hatred would be shocking to C'mell. It wasn't. Underpeople were used to hatred, and it was not any worse raw than it was when cooked with politeness and served like poison. They had to live with it.
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Yes, I know, I do have a tendency to place the interesting items of the composition, not in the centre of the frame, as most people do, but off to one side.
There it is! What a very nice tower! It's not short of windows, is it? Gosh, just imagine living in there. Yes, picture being in, say, the circular room with the oval windows! A good view all round. I expect there will be, in the room below, a little narrow curving staircase leading up to it.
The building used to be a bank, but the ground floor is now one of my favourite cafés.
Yes, but what about all the other stuff going on - the stuff on the right?
Do you like the way the scaffolding and sheeting is sloping, with its perspective, descending, leading the viewer's eye to land on the tower? Hm, I do.
The building, under renovation, showing us one of its three lovely domes, used to be the Dock Offices in the olden days. After that it became the local Maritime Museum, with lots of models and paintings of seafaring stuff, and images of the times when we used to go out and kill whales, not because we disliked them, but for all the money that came from selling off all their bits and pieces.
If, dear reader, you'd like to see what the whole building looks like, you could click here.
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