Snow... blots and softens the top of every object like ice on a plum pudding. Hedges, telegraph wires, cars, postboxes, recycling bins. The world is losing its edges. Look upwards and it seems as if the stars themselves are being poured from the sky and turn out not to be vast and fiery globes after all but tiny, frozen things which melt in the palm of your hand. Mark Haddon
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The world is losing its edges, but it is also gaining them. Take the snow for example. It does not merely blur the edges of things, but actually softens them. This makes snow beautiful.

When snow falls, it forms a layer of white on top of every object it touches. A hedge looks like a hedge, a telegraph wire looks like a telegraph wire, and a car looks like a car. This means that the world is gaining its edges.

Source: The Pier Falls: And Other Stories

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