Pliny and Nostradamus walked from Semaphore South to Largs this afternoon. When Pliny's eye was on the horizon, Nostradamus's was on the sand.
Pliny saw the wide blue sky, 49 yachts, the amethyst sea, 9 children playing in the shallows, copper coloured wavelets, heaps of tealeaf seaweed, weeping sands, her own feet.
Nostradamus saw a blobby thing on the sand, grey and dotted like a beche de mer. He saw hundreds of transparent kidneyshaped jellyfish at the water's edge. Pliny has no doubt that he saw many other things as well.
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