Seen in a charity shop window |
Or just ... a typology of lighthouses ...
Lighthouses are a dying breed: "Once widely used, the number of operational lighthouses has declined due to the expense of maintenance and replacement by modern electronic navigational systems such as strobes." Gone, then, is the romance (or otherwise) of being a lighthouse keeper.
(later...) that elusive noun might be "consolation" ... a consolation of lighthouses ... as in the penultimate paragraph of Kathleen Jamie's essay about midwinter in Orkney at http://www.theguardian.com/books/lrb/articles/0,,1124890,00.html
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Tautology of lighthouses perhaps? Sally
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