![]() ![]() We’ve never before seen anything like them: they are both post-apocalyptic (no city lights, remember, no other sign of man) and bright markers of civilisation. They expand the reach of both metaphor and imagination. To me, those flashing lights on a completely dark map of the world are more than just a cartographical fascinator. The bigger white, yellow, red or green blobs of light intermittently blotted out 40 mile-wide circles on the dark grey map, smaller lights that might only need to be seen from 200ft away beamed out smaller warnings alongside: watch out for this rock, that dangerous shoal. They pulsed in the same colours as the actual lights they represented, with the same pattern of flashes. On it, each of them appeared as a dot of light whose diameter varied according to the strength of its beam. ![]() Idly flicking through Twitter the other day, I came across a link to a website showing a map of all the world’s lighthouses, light vessels, beacons and lights at sea. ‘Intense, multi-layered story of love, loss and loneliness in Berlin’ David Robinson dives into The Instant, the follow up to Amy Liptrot’s debut and literary sensation, The Outrun. ![]()
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