The calm & the storm

8.05 pm New Year’s Eve Daylesford

edge of the lake

I braked the car against the kerb and switched the headlights off and sat with my hands on the wheel. Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without a sound, like a thought trying to form itself on the edge of consciousness.

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Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep

Penguin reissue 2008 p.163

First published Hamish Hamilton 1939

edge of the lake

Daylesford–Malmsbury Road Sunday 1 November 2009