Monday Morning

Today is defined by an early start: rising at 6:15am turns 9am into mid-morning and offers the opportunity for a partially-deserved study break. The view is similar to yesterday's although the smoke is inaccurately portrayed as eerily ghost-like. There is, in fact, a high and well-defined plume of smoke parading through the air this morning, but I like the mood that this photo evokes. It reflects that feeling of somnambulance, which I associate with what is usually a hazy-start to the working week. It is also a photo fully aware of time-- clearly defined by the clock-- but in the same breath, it is a photo that knows its own transience. Soon morning will slip away into the afternoon and from that short-lived time-frame, the day will disappear into dusk and fall into nothing but night. The ghost-like quality of this photo is, of course, undercut by its promise of industriousness: the coal-furnace serving as a trope to indicate productive employment. At that point I return to reading about women's social amelioration in late-Victorian London.