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“The grainy sand had gone from under his feet.”
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Stephen moves through a bleak and decaying landscape filled with driftwood, refuse, mudflats, and remnants of both nature and human activity. The strand appears simultaneously beautiful and threatening, haunted by history, mortality, and transience. Lost in his thoughts, Stephen unconsciously
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