Silted-up residues of the years smouldered uninterruptedly-and not without melancholy-in the maroon brickwork of these medieval closes: beyond the cobbles and archways of which {in a more northerly direction} memory also brooded, no less enigmatic and inconsolable, among water-meadows and avenues of trees: the sombre demands of the past becoming at times almost suffocating in their insistence.
( Anthony Powell )
[ A Question of Upbringing ]
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