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Or, "that cloud looks like Ireland!"

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Stephen Palmer
Sep 29, 2023
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There is a stone floor inside a roadside service station near where I live on which I see the face of Gandalf and the head of a stag in profile. They're clear and unambiguous, although I suppose it could be any old man with a white moustache and a grumpy expression. The stag, meanwhile, has fabulous antlers. Whether the flooring is real or reconstituted…

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