the MIASMA ARMS HOTEL 1. CLOTHES MADE IN CHINA : I was wearing a coat which didn't really fit - the sleeves seemed too short and the chest area too large making it all feel awkward and as if I was somehow lost in two different coats fighting to both keep me in and let me out at the same time - and the label bore some sort of griffin or flying creature which was marked within a yellow/gold circle with sunbeams and the lettering beneath spelled out something like 'Harum' although I could never really tell by the mis-stitching which marred the lettering and although none of it really mattered yet I bundled it up as tightly as I could and I came close to the edge of the water where the night sky was glittering on its surface reflected in a congeries of lights very little of which was stars but which had been at least entered by the filmy light of a now full moon (which I welcomed with a grin) and behind me traffic went by with that wheezing sound of...