The Living and the Dead in Winsford

‘Characteristic of the moor is that to all intents and purposes, it has no beginning and no end. I would like to mention three other things that are not to be found in this sublime landscape: cul-de-sacs, evasive excuses, and last but not least — words.’

Royston Jenkins (1866–1953), innkeeper in Culbone

‘. . the dispassionate fluids of an eye that tried so hard to forget one particular thing that it ended up forgetting everything else.’

Roberto Bolaño, Amulet