{"id":4512,"date":"2013-08-04T03:40:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T03:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikewish.wordpress.com\/?p=4512"},"modified":"2018-05-03T10:22:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T00:22:07","slug":"ailsas-travel-photo-challenge-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikewish.org\/?p=4512","title":{"rendered":"Ailsa’s travel photo challenge: Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr Heathcliff’s dwelling, ‘Wuthering’ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there, at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind, blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few, stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun.”<\/p>\n

Wuthering Heights<\/em>, Emily Bront\u00eb<\/p>\n

Wuthering is the word that played in my head one day in May as I walked along the cliffs beside the Mediterranean, in winds strong enough to blow me over the edge.\u00a0 I was alone up here for half an hour until defeated by howling gusts. The wilder the wind blew, the more scenes I recalled from Bront\u00eb novels where heroines wander in windy places.\u00a0 This isn’t the English moors, but these cliffs gave me nonetheless a Gothic taste of desolation with a hint of fear.\u00a0 At least on the moors there is no jagged edge to tumble over.<\/p>\n

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Schist cliffs, Mediterranean, between Collioure and Port-Vendres, France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Schist cliffs between Collioure and Port-Vendres, France<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Before you leave, click here<\/a> to see Ailsa’s photos of places where the wild things are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr Heathcliff’s dwelling, ‘Wuthering’ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there, at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind, blowing over the edge, by … <\/p>\n

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