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...[Days] like this are gone even as they happen.

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Tell her twice and it's the truth.

Circling back around to the prologue now, nice nice

None but me lift their head to hear the far-off drums of thunder over the bay.

How is it that if one walks far enough in the woods one eventually finds the rusted frame of an abandoned car?

t.r.u.e.

Mrs. Arthurs knows what's UP
Cranes used to have a cottage out here? You don't say...

Seeing Barth come out the worse in almost every confrontation in Murdoch is kinda satisfying, honestly. How he narrates himself vs how things actually go.

Belief the weight of air in your lungs.

Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death
Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;

Keats was really good

....[It] seems the hotel absorbs all sound but which it creates itself.

Good to see Barth's high power cocaine lawyer shtick doesn't fly with the Murdoch folk

The concierge looks up at me and shakes his head blue black, blue black, across the line of shadow and light.

And then comes the real world. Flattening everything in its path, handing out just desserts.

Roadside stands as indicators of a town coming up is just. So true.

A city slicker born in a country where cities are few and far between.

...there is little more ahead than an indeterminable expanse of humanlessness.

No matter where you start from, north is always so close in this country. Almost any exit taken off the highway along Lake Ontario after the heavy industries, warehouses, and nuclear power stations have passed and in only a couple hours it's all over you. A place where the ratio of altered to unaltered space gets shifted dramatically in the latter's favor and...

Ah yes, I'm sure a Canadian driving to northern Ontario is measuring his speed as 70m/h and not like, 112km/h.
And as the author is Canadian and all the 'u's have been killed, this is probably an editor thing.

Barth really doing a speedrun of ticking all the unlikable MC tickboxes here.