A lighthouse rears up on the shore.
The backup pints are hauled on deck, we're not sunk yet, we're still afloat, only one more hour until last call, the lighthouse is up ahead, Ithaca, we can make it, we will be in our beds, we bartenders with our lovers, the suitors slain in our dreams, but tomorrow we sail for Troy again, chasing something, a dollar bill, that beautiful seducer.
A lighthouse up the cliff was recently moved back seventeen metres, to keep it from falling with the chalk.
As their empire expanded, the Romans put up lighthouses as quickly as they expanded trading routes.
Then Herbert Tom Lloydd), a crusty old lighthouse keeper, shows up, adding his off-key solitude to the mix.
As he went up Lighthouse Hill, as he forced his cart over the hump, his usual sense of exultation was gone entirely.
He and his co-founder, Mukund Krishnaswami, an American whose parents emigrated from India, both chucked in careers in America investing in small firms and headed to Mumbai to set up Lighthouse in 2006.
Finally, I reached Gay Head lighthouse, perched high up on red clay cliffs and surrounded by beautiful beaches, just beyond the town of Aquinnah, and part of the Wampanoag tribal lands.
The film has been shot with four cameras and a technical precision that makes every detail resonate: birds in flight, the sounds of passing airplanes, the flicking of a cow's ear, the beam of a distant lighthouse that flares up with the darkening of the sky.
In 1865, Joseph Henry of the Smithsonian Institution, the Chairman of the Lighthouse Board, set up bells and whistles and tested the distances they could be heard.
