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“We might be the only living creatures in the whole world”: The Rock and British Imperialism

Lindsay writes: “Clumps of rubbery ferns motionless in the pale light cast no shadows upon the carpet of dry grey moss.”1 This light, coming from the sun, must be in the sky shining down. It is inexplicable, then, that – no matter how pale the light – the ferns do not have a shadow. It is as if the source of light is coming from everywhere, all at once…

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