He joined Rose on the field for pictures, and when Rose tried to give
him the ball as a memento, Holmes said, «No, it belongs to you, Pete.»
As we descended below the surface, an 8 -
Ball our only physical
memento, we realised that the cinemas we had visited during the day might no longer exist, that our submarine had not descended but that the water level had risen, flooding the island and its cinemas so that celluloid and other projection paraphernalia is carried around the streets by the flow, wrapping itself entangled on lamp posts, car wheels, blocking drains and choking birds and small children.