{"id":1119,"date":"2026-01-03T21:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/against-a-dark-background-banks-iain\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:14:17","slug":"against-a-dark-background-banks-iain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/against-a-dark-background-banks-iain\/","title":{"rendered":"Against a Dark Background – Banks, Iain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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She put her chin on the wood below the window. The wood was cold and shiny<\/b> and smelled. She kneeled on the seat; it smelled too, but different. The seat was<\/b> wide and red like the sunset and had little buttons that made deep lines in it and<\/b> made it look like somebody’s tummy. It was dull outside and the lights were on in<\/b> the cable car. There were people skiing on the steep slopes beneath. She could<\/b> see her own face looking back at ‘her in the glass; she started to make faces at<\/b> herself. <\/b><\/p>\n

After a while the glass in front of her face went misty. She reached up and<\/b> wiped it. Somebody in another car, going down the hill, waved at her. She<\/b> ignored them. The hills and the white trees tipped slowly back and forward. <\/b><\/p>\n

The cable car swung gently as it rose through the mountain air towards the<\/b> cloudbase. The trees and runs on the slopes beneath were equally white; a fresh<\/b> snowfall and freezing fog blowing up the valley overnight had coated the<\/b> branches and needles of the trees with a crisp white wrap of crystals. Skiers cut<\/b> and scythed through the new plumpness of the fall, engraving -a carved text of<\/b> blue-white lines onto the bulging fresh page of snow. <\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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