AuthorChapter 23
Alone in the Red Weed Wasteland
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1 The starved narrator stands swaying on the rubble mound above the empty Martian pit
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2 The narrator stands swaying on the rubble summit at Sheen.
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3 From high above, the narrator is a tiny figure on the mound over the empty Martian pit
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4 Starving, the narrator limps west towards Kew down an avenue of trees hung with red weed
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5 The Thames valley lies drowned under brown floodwater and blood-red weed
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6 On Putney Common, the starving narrator stands on the step of an intact villa with drawn blinds.
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7 Among bleached bones on Putney Common, the starving Narrator gnaws one like a dog
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8 At dusk the starving narrator stands at the far wall of an abandoned potato garden.
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9 On Putney Hill, the narrator comes on a skeleton picked clean, its arms torn off
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10 At grey dusk, the stooped narrator stands where three empty roads meet on Putney Hill
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