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Sharp clarity

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It had rained all morning and then suddenly cleared at noon, and the air, freshly washed today, was like dark crystal in the sharp clarity and sombre focus it gave to every image.

James Jones in From Here to Eternity (as mentioned in Joan Didion's essay In the Islands)

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