He described how "the leaping cracking flames and the close volume of breeze-blown smoke circling and spreading over the dark outlined hillside, the town lit lit by the powerful ruddy glow of the blazing hills, the dark masses of the people silhouetted against the glare, all made for a never to be forgotten sight".
But it's the booze itself, like the 1930s rye that tops off the bar's Vieux Carr?or the cigar-infused bourbon drink called the Havana, or the shiso-infused vodka with goji liqueur and poppy seeds, that has London Town lit.
I do feel safer out there in real darkness though, rather than in a lit town.
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — America, that shining city upon a hill, seems ever more like a half-lit town upon a hummock.
Then, in the blink of an eye, Scott Pask's ingenious designs whisk us across town to Joan's brightly lit, expensively decorated pad.
The front-of-house team, mostly women from the town, scuttle about the brightly lit dining room inventing numbering systems for the larger tables and resisting any attempts at substitutions.
At the bottom, we hit the brightly lit highway that connects all the towns in the valley like a string of festival lights.
A few blocks from the glitzy hotel where Prince Harry cavorted in Las Vegas last year, doing his bit for its party-town image, the neon-lit strip of casinos, bars, restaurants and malls greys into a landscape he almost certainly did not see: broken pavements, empty lots, boarded-up facades.
Another place associated with Prithu is Prithudaka (lit. "Prithu's pool"), a town on banks of Sarasvati river, where Prithu is believed to have performed the Shraddha of his father.
With overseas prestige under threat, the majority reacted: even middle-sized towns got their own Rock Against Racism gig and the government organised candle-lit demonstrations.
