John Owen TheobaldSmoke curls among the ruins of East London. Many of the buildings have burned to the ground or split like exploded rocks. Small lights bloom like a sea of candles. Even this rain will never put them all out.
About This Quote
The East End was destroyed in the Blitz of World War II. In this quote, novelist Arthur Conan Doyle describes the devastation of a great fire. This is a common way people describe the destruction of a city in wartime. The fire that destroyed East London was put out by a towering blaze that consumed the entire city.
Source: These Dark Wings
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