Houseboats - Simon Bookish

Vivid architecture

An enormous university

Vast domed ceilings

Huge, tiled resonant halls

15 story high towers in ornately-laid red brick

Minarets, labyrinths and oubliettes

In utter disorientation

Wheeling a library trolley

Visiting a series of strange sunken houseboats

Grey mists

Men and women

Sinking slowly