1)“Their wanderings through the crimson twilight had brought them to the neighbourhood of metre 110 on Rack 9.”
2)“Block above block, each storey smaller than the one below, the tall houses rose like stepped and amputated pyramids into the blue sky.”
3)“Opening her eyes, she had seen his face – no, not his face, a ferocious stranger’s, pale, distorted, twitching with some insane, inexplicable fury.”
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Brave New World (January 2013)
My entry for the folio society Brave New World illustration contest. From reading the text, I had this impression of London being visually a very circular-centric location, the reason might be that there are no hardship or struggle in the lives of those who inhabit there so everything seems really “rounded” and without rough edges; to contrast this, Malpais gave me an impression of it being the extreme opposite where everything follows the old rigid beliefs and system. The 3 quotes I have chosen to illustrate are:
