united striking post-war phenomenon...

united striking post-war phenomenon has been the transformation of numerous countries into pseudo-places whose function is simply to entice tourists.

- Paul Fussell, Abroad

Night studys are best, the ones that visit us where we lie smoking between three and four before the first bird and the first tour bus. formerly you would wake up shaking at this hour if it be not that now, this morning, you are a child one time more wide-eyed in an attic space behind the shore at one generic, gull-pierced seaside town in war-time Co Antrim or Co Down - navies aglow not upon Bangor and Whitehead, dark sea, Glenn