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MAG · 5 September 2026

The Road Holds the Slope with Both Hands

Seen from a moving car: a coastal road with a double yellow line winding along a green-brown slope high above the ocean; further bends and hazy headlands in the distance
Seen from a moving car: a coastal road with a double yellow line winding along a green-brown slope high above the ocean; further bends and hazy headlands in the distance

Photograph: MAG · Description: AI

The road holds on to the slope with both hands. It does not want to come down to the water and it does not want to climb, so it goes sideways and doubles back on itself, and does that

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