gornegrat

Updated: May 28, 2025

I said something about it said I liked the open spaces like the Gornegrat or the Bel Alp better. He asked me why: if it was the difference of the air, or merely the wider horizon? I said it was the sense of not being crowded, of living in an empty world. He repeated the word 'empty' and laughed. "'By "empty" you mean, he said, 'where things don't knock up against you? I told him No.

John Buchan - The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies