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To walk up into the dusk is an inversion of the usual order of things.  I leave the road late, when others are descending, their faces ruddy  with the day’s work. The air by the roadside is thick with the scent of  bog myrtle and the low, peaty exhalations o…

The Truth About Belief The Strait of Hormuz is twenty-one miles wide at its narrowest point, which is simultaneously a very short distance and an impossibly vast one, depending on whether you are measuring it with a surveyor's chain or with human anxiety. Twenty-one miles. A fit …