Glasgow Looking Glass #3

In the quiet intimacy of a 19th-century cabin, a man enters with a decanter, setting the stage for a moment of shared attention. As a passenger reads the *Looking Glass* aloud from a camp-stool, the flicker of light from a hanging book-case casts long shadows over the horseshoe table and the listening few.

In "The Mobiade," a chaotic mob swarms the gates of Edinburgh Castle, hurling sticks, stones, and even a dead cat in a futile assault, while a startled bailie in full regalia watches from the side, staff in hand. The tale closes with a grim tail-piece: a man’s head and arms thrust through the bars of a tiny prison window, shouting silently into the void.