It comes from another world, which, like the stars that originally sent out the light we see hesitating in the sky above us these nights, may be or is already gone. It is possible to reconstruct the facts of this world - the furniture, the clothing, the ornaments on the mantelpiece, the jugs and basins, and even the chamber pots in the bedrooms, but not the emotions, not with the same exactness. So much that is now known and felt must be excluded.

I had become a visitant from outer space, a time-traveller come back from the future, bearing news of a great disaster.

"Not a single word or idea is too good to be deleted, changed, or improved." Abby Goldsmith

“Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence.” ― Christine de Pizan

"An adventure is a transgression you don't regret." Kate Wheeler

In all of the stories, it’s the primal memory of wild, untamed nature beneath the veneer of modern London which haunts those who venture out onto the marshes. The extraordinary persistence of this wilderness in East London reminds us that, eventually, when the human project ends, nature will swallow up all that have achieved.