“Human kind,” TS Eliot famously wrote, “cannot bear very much reality”. In times of stress, our survival and sanity depend upon diversion and on our ability to keep our eyes focused on the ball that rolls before us, not the drama unfolding in the darkening sky behind. *
* Look closer: What a background can reveal by Kelly Grovier
I find myself in need of a diversion from the sky behind me. But where should I look? What direction other than the Eye of Mordor should catch my gaze? Any suggestions?
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