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The sun was annealing plates of copper light to his skin, dressing his arms and shoulders in a coronation armour

Beyond the tilting fences he could see the drained swimming pools of Cocoa Beach, each a complex geometry of light and shadow, canted decks encoding the secret entrances to another dimension

it took root like a lingering disease in the interstices of its victims' lives

Above the city buildings the sky was blue and pale with light, drawn across by thin skeins of transparent cloud.

I never entirely plumbed the reasons for his preferring labour, no matter how stultifying or demeaning or ill-paid, to collecting benefits