Alas, you will not have such a light-footed descent.
It was aquarium as theatre: the architect, Peter Chermayeff, was also an aspiring filmmaker, and the interior layout "directs" visitors, as in a long tracking shot, using darkness and light, ascent and descent, to create drama.
There are two schools of thought about staking, but in a garden like Glebe Cottage - where the planting ethos, as Derek Jarman would have put it, is decidedly "shaggy" - control should be exerted with a light touch, preventing descent into chaos while steering clear of any hint of regimentation.
This can be understood if we consider the modification of the folding energy-landscape; visible light induces the descent of the proteins into deeper states impeding the unfolding produced by UV-C.
Planes fly overhead ("Red pulse the big jet's lights / in descent"); the poet returns to his childhood home ("No one is left here who knows me anymore"); even food spoiling in the refrigerator ("Fetor of broken proteins") is notable for its implied metamorphosis.
Are over 50; Have a family history of the disease; Smoke; Are of European descent; Have light-colored eyes; Have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or cardiovascular disease.
Information gleaned from the organisers' own website would appear to suggest that this biannual descent of Marlboro Light smoking fashionistas is punishment for Hoxton, the Queen, gastro pubs and Jude Law.
In light of Sly's later descent into himself, the sense of warmth and community — the way each member ("Lazy Larry" on fuzzbox bass, "Ready Freddie" on snaking guitar) gets a turn in the spotlight — is strangely poignant.
Mounted in a filmstrip format, the photographs, taken from a fixed point through the windows of his house, show the progress of the day in terms of light from dawn to the descent of darkness, a majestic process that only a camera could narrate.
