landslipping

Updated: June 23, 2025

I gazed away from it to a large-ish castle that the sea was just reaching. A little, then quickly much, the waters swirled into the moat. Many children stood by, all a-dance with excitement. The castle was shedding its sides, lapsing, dwindling, landslipping gone. O Nineveh! And now another O Memphis? Rome? yielded to the cataclysm. I listened to the jubilant screams of the children.

Sir Max Beerbohm - And Even Now