You go to the end to know it is the end.
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Lighthouses series · 8 of 20 different sets.
Catalogue Nº 038 of 100.
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There is a particular calm that arrives at the end of a long drive to nowhere in particular. The radio loses signal. The trees get shorter. The wind has been from the same direction for the last hour. You park, you walk, and you reach a point past which there is nothing. The calm is not because anything was resolved. It is because there is nothing further to drive towards. The decision about what to do next can wait. You have arrived. That is currently enough.
The Pointe du Raz at the western tip of Brittany. A small lighthouse sits two hundred metres out, on a rock the sea is doing its best to flatten. There is nothing past it for two thousand kilometres. People have been coming here for the ending since long before there was a road. Most turn around and go home reasonably soon afterwards. The point of arriving is having arrived.
Reads alongside The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald, The Summer Book by Tove Jansson, or any book finished at the geographical end of something.
A lighthouse is the last building on the side of the planet that still takes its job seriously. There is a structure, there is a lamp at the top, the lamp turns through the night, and somewhere out at sea a small boat takes a slightly different decision because of it. The whole arrangement was perfected a hundred and fifty years ago and nobody has thought of a better one. Most of the world has stopped paying attention. The lighthouses have not.
