“I didn’t really think through what a lighthouse keeper actually did. I was attracted by the romantic notion of sitting on a rock, writing haikus & dashing off the occasional watercolour.”
—Peter Hill in the London Review of Books
16 & 17 August is the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v18/n11/peter-hill/diary
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