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Article: Night thoughts. (poem)
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- Chicago Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 1997
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One striking post-war phenomenon has been the transformation of numerous countries into pseudo-places whose function is simply to entice tourists.
- Paul Fussell, Abroad
Night thoughts are best, the ones that visit us where we lie smoking between three and four before the first bird and the first tour bus. Once you would wake up shaking at this hour but now, this morning, you are a child once more wide-eyed in an attic room behind the shore at some generic, gull-pierced seaside town in war-time Co. Antrim or Co. Down - navies aglow off Bangor and Whitehead, dark sea, Glenn Miller's 'Moonlight Serenade', huge transport planes thundering overhead. Each white ...