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‘Above me the entire sky had opened. What a few hours earlier had been plain dense cloud cover now took on landscape-like formations, a chasm with long flat trenches, steep walls and sudden pinnacles, in some places white and substantial like snow, in others grey and as hard as rock.… Actually everyone ought to be in the streets, I thought, cars ought to stop, doors ought to be opened and drivers and passengers emerge with heads raised and eyes sparkling with curiosity and a craving for beauty, for what was it that was going on above our heads? However, a few glances at most were cast upwards, perhaps followed by isolated comments about how beautiful the evening was, for sights like this were not exceptional; on the contrary, hardly a day passed without the sky being filled with fantastic cloud formations, each and every one illuminated in unique never-to-be-repeated ways.’From A Death in the Family (2009), a memoir by Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård, translated by Don Bartlett.Stratocumulus and Cumulus congestus clouds with crepuscular rays spotted over Tokyo, Japan by Edward Frye (Member 58,481)