Sublime

Only the birds above her and, in the slow unpeeling of darkness, a divinity of sky.

Cape Wrath lighthouse.

“bible of all tribes”

their beloved mountain peak known as Snaefell.

Plastering over the natural rock is the perfect symbol of what they hoped to do to the Hawaiians’ earthy way of life.

Fittingly, the summit was a surreal, malevolent place, an improbably slender wedge of rock and rime no wider than a file cabinet. It did not encourage loitering.

expectation of island hospitality.