Regarding point number 2, the apocalyptic post-cliff picture painted by pundits reminds me of Edvard Munch's "The Scream," inspired by the catastrophic volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in 1883.
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By 1963, Cliff is pictured in his lovely home, a bar in the corner, modern Swedish furniture and classical panelling above the mock-baronial fireplace.
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There is something quite magical about learning the history of a place while standing on a cliff top; I picture magnificent ships precariously anchoring near land; the first apple tree planted by Captain William Bligh; and the apparently amicable meetings between Antoine Bruni D'entrecasteaux and Aboriginal people across the Bruny channel.
Two and a half hours, and several bottles of Mythos, later, we were in high spirits as we arrived at our spectacular hotel built into the side of the cliffs overlooking a picture postcard bay.
Picture a cliff plunging nearly a mile straight down into a thick blanket of green rain forest.
Talking about it at work he mentioned that he had been taking photographs of his friends; asked to bring them in, he was dispatched to the Observer, whose picture editor, Cliff Hopkinson, chose a photo of the Guvnors posing in their suits on various levels of a bombed-out building.
"Ogunquit Cliff," a 1907 canvas, pictures a wind-swept tree clinging tenuously to the crag, perhaps an allegory of Down East stubbornness in the face of a harsh environment.
Picture precipitous cliffs, winding dirt roads, and pine trees.
