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Ghostly fog

Fog is not quite often experienced in early Spring where I am, especially in the evening. But last night, when I got on my bed after just another lazy day and looked out of the window, a very dense fog came into my sight.

I opened the slide window a bit. The mist then floated through the narrow opening, reaching the skin of my right hand. It felt a bit cold at first, and then damp after a few seconds. I opened the window completely and sticked out my head. Seeing through fog is like looking at the world under a pair of presbyopic glasses. Your vision becomes blury.(It's another story if you actually need one.)

Another thing was the smell. It was a damp and suffocating air that you could only breath in an old public bathroom with an old ventilation system. People might get respiratory diseases after long exposure to such air suffused with numerous suspensed particals. So I wouldn't risk my health and recoiled.

I was not sure whether it was only a coincidence that I was reading Chapter 7 of Dracula in which some detailed description of sea-fog is made. I simply couldn't help imaging if there was also an apparition in disguise lurking in the mist, just like Count Dracula steered the schooner to the Whitby harbour through the dank and damp sea-fog.

There was a ghostly smell pervading through the fog.

But hell, it was all in my head. Indeed, the flapping sun-shading clothes outside reminded me of the sail of a ghost ship at sea, I was nowhere near as superstitious as the Irish writer.

18.3.06 17:38

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(18.3.06 18:41)
I like fog. Except when I'm driving, of course!

Sadly, I rarely get the chance to see it in my hometown.

(19.3.06 08:01)
I like the picture!! Looks like a Need For Speed scenario coming to reality!

passby (27.3.06 13:23)
Suddenly it reminds me of something like Gothic picture or story...Last week I have studied a little bit about this kind of literary branch haha...