Buildings in the distant mountains

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Abandoned castles; hilltop shelters; stoppered wells full of trapped giants; follies; icy barrows; the upper end of the tourist railway; religious institutions reachable only by a day’s reflective climb; lake-floor bases; cities of charming cheese; dragon-burrows; painted caves; the huts that guard the beacon-fires; ancient mines; hidden valley-gardens; trees that have grown together in a great knot and underneath is dry and calm; sheepfolds; carnivorous bungalows exiled from the suburbs; sheds with things to forget; the frozen husks of lost libraries; the volcano-god’s sun loungers; crashed spacecraft; uncastled oubliettes; cracks sealed with iron doors; ghostly shacks; half-built dams; accreted piles of tents; stranded ships; the cottage at the end of the long track.