Words&Dirt

“‘You know what Crewe is?’ said Tom.  ‘Ultimate reality.  That’s why we can’t touch it.  Each of these shops is full of every aspect of one part of existence.  Woolworth’s is a tool shed; Boots, a bathroom; the British Home Stores, a wardrobe.  And we walk through it all, but we can’t clean our teeth, or mend a fuse, or change our socks.  You’d starve in this supermarket.  It’s all so real, we’re shadows.'”

––Red Shift, by Alan Garner, loc. 1312