“What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.”

—  David Mitchell, book Cloud Atlas

"The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish", p. 389
Cloud Atlas (2004)

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