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were like those time-exposure photographs you see of cities at nightwith the long red streaks made by the tail lights of cars. Except that here the cars were driving above and under each other as if they were on interchanges that were stacked ten storeys high. And here the cars were of the craziest colours. The dorados—there must have been over fifty patrolling beneath the raft—showed off their bright goldblue and green as they whisked by. Other fish that I could not identify were yellow brownsilverblueredpinkgreenwhitein all kinds of combinationssolidstreaked and speckled. Only the sharks stubbornly refused to be colourful. But whatever the size or colour of a vehicleone thing was constant: the furious driving. There were many collisions—all involving fatalitiesI’m afraid—and a number of cars spun wildly out of control and collided against barriers bursting above the surface of the water and splashing down in showers of luminescence. I gazed upon this urban hurly-burly like someone observing a city from a hot-air balloon. It was a spectacle wondrous and awe-inspiring. This is surely what Tokyo must look like at rush hour. I looked on louboutin sneakers for women |
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