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[Redbook3:12][19860907:0612f]{Kielder Water [continued]}[7^th September 1986]

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(b)* I was travelling Northwards**, almost as a refugee; the land behind me to the South was flooding, and water was rising in all the narrow valleys. Once in the hills, however – which reached out in spurs from the northern highland between the flooding valleys – I was able to turn round on what I took to be the narrow highland and watch the flooding [of the] South from safety. Turning North again, I saw that a whole new high country opened up: a Country of light, refuge, and new beginnings.***[sic]

*[See last previous entry]

**See note to II.327 to re-orient this [i.e. as relative directions only]. <871223-4>

***{This last phase is not in II.327 (cf. Doris Lessing's science fiction).} [Redbook2:327-328][19840119:1030b]{A Dream: of Floods and Highlands}[19^th January 1984]

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