The sea and the sky (late 2011 edition)

Between the silver ribbon of morning and the green glittering ribbon of sea, the boat touched Harwich and let loose a swarm of folk like flies, among whom the man we must follow was by no means conspicuous--nor wished to be. --G.K. Chesterton, "The Blue Cross," opening sentence

(To be added to these worthies.)

The quote that was Thursday's

It was built of a bright brick throughout; its sky-line was fantastic, and even its ground plan was wild. It had been the outburst of a speculative builder, faintly tinged with art, who called its architecture sometimes Elizabethan and sometimes Queen Anne, apparently under the impression that the two sovereigns were identical. —G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday