The Geographer's Library

THE YELLOW SUN
There are no sunrises at sea. When from the crow’s nest the observant watcher
first spies yellow filaments trickling into the sky, whether he is ultimately
delighted or warned, he is primarily relieved. Yellow sunrises signal land: he is
almost once more on solid ground.
15 December 1989
Aubrey College, Oxford
—søren åstergaard, Enquiries in Favor of Life
To the Chief Senior House Officer,
Psychiatric Wing, James Hinchcliffe Hospital:
This letter accompanies Mr K. R. Prasad, the Junior Dean of
Aubrey College, and Mr Benjamin Glantz, an Aubrey postgraduate student
in no small amount of distress.
As you will undoubtedly hear, the College has suffered a terrible loss
today. Mr Glantz has inadvertently been most directly affected, as it was
he who discovered Dr Dimbledon’s body. He was in such a state of nervous
apoplexy this morning that I thought it best to remand him to your
care for the time being. I know Mr Glantz to be a remarkably intelligent,
capable young man (though he does possess a tense and rather excitable
disposition), and I hope that after a few days’ rest in serene environs, he
will be quite himself again.
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