the single recorded image a view from a white-curtained balcony, looking toward what Laney took to be the Irish Sea. There was an unlikely palm tree, a length of chainlink fence, a railbed with a twin dull gleam of track, a deep expanse of grayish-brown beach, and then the gray and silver sea. Closer to the sea, partially cut off by the image’s border, there appeared to be a low, broad fort of stone, like a truncated tower. Its stones were the color of the beach.
Dalkey in Dublin. Likely a view from an actual guesthouse when Gibson was promoting Virtual Light and visited with Bono (pox) and The Edge, who himself had one of the Martello Towers described. I love these artifCts in his books.
