The summer was heavy with a kind of soft grey-blue weight in the sky-yet not in the sky, for it was as though there were no sky, but only air, an impalpable grey-blue substance, drugged with the weight of its own heat and hue. (Mervyn Peake)

The summer was heavy with a kind of soft grey-blue weight in the sky-yet not in the sky, for it was as though there were no sky, but only air, an impalpable grey-blue substance, drugged with the weight of its own heat and hue.

Mervyn Peake

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