...he set out on his usual twilight walk, even through the heavy drizzle, common in late Autumn, did not stop, fine rain, tears falling vertically, sewing down the air, setting the smooth surface of the canals abristle with needles, capturing and transfixing the soul...
...he needed infinate silence...
... He possesed what one might call a 'sense of resemblance' , an extra sense,...,which linked things to each other by a thousand tenuous threads, relating trees to the Virgin Mary,creating a spiritual telegraphy between his souul and grief stricken Bruges...Some [façades] are of a pale green was, or faded brickwork, repointed in white...
light bright on rooves
Here is not a very good reproduction of a medieval map that I was so lucky to see for real in the Biekoff Library this morning. This map is very precious. It is beautifully preserved in a book of Italian chronicles of Flanders. It is the earliest known map of Flanders. Dated 1452, it is a very lovely manuscript. The green ink is shiny.You can see a few woodworm holes. The reddish colour looks almost magenta in the orginal. Bruges is the fruit-like circular walled city near the centre. The purpose of the map is to show to merchants how easy the trade route is by bboat from Italy to Bruges. A very special map.
