Somehow I always reminded of El Rey the criminal refuge in Jim Thompson's The Getaway, an ending so dark it was cut out of both film adaptations.
There seems to be no chance of escape and I have lost the will to try.
Tom in the The Republic of Mimpi and Lost in Sea of Sand |
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After returning from Lebanon all has been bleak an empty. The countryside seems pretty enough but look closely and it is something like a green desert. The populations of birds, insects and animals have collapsed. That I can see, but perhaps there are plants and the barely visible and invisible animals that have gone too. Nobody here seems to care. There are more important things to think about, historic buses, cycle tracks and dog walking. There are expressions of anxiety, naturally, but these seem more virtue signalling than real concern. In fact go to the top of Arnside Knott at night and you can see the whole village twinkling with the lights of virtue, powered by the electricity of ethical living.
Somehow I always reminded of El Rey the criminal refuge in Jim Thompson's The Getaway, an ending so dark it was cut out of both film adaptations. There seems to be no chance of escape and I have lost the will to try.
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