venice-like

Updated: August 14, 2026

London, the London before the war, flaunting its enormous glare, as of a monstrous conflagration up into the black sky with its best Venice-like aspect of rainy evenings, the wet asphalted streets lying with the sheen of sleeping water in winding canals, and the great houses of the city towering all dark, like empty palaces, above the reflected lights of the glistening roadway.

Joseph Conrad - Notes on Life and Letters