a day cradled within a perfect chill, just the slightest of sporadic drizzles and an overcast sky, familiarity and reflections... i'd seen this place before, it sits on one of those streets that there's never any reason to go down but is visible from the corner of the part... something about the richness of the traditional and the sparseness of the modern, worlds tumbling together, the tv bringing something else into play, conflict and convergence within the global village, gods and monsters, jumbled changes in the units of measurement which map those other realms of time and distance,