You had picked up the battered old volume because you thought it might be a quaint old story to leaf through on a rainy day - but now that you’ve opened it, you’re amazed: although most of the hundreds of pages are filled with dense scrawls you can’t understand, the very first page contains a Picture of a strange-looking island. Not only is the Picture displayed in vivid colour, not only is it exquisitely detailed, it’s animated – the view continually swirls, dives and swoops around the island.
Eventually it settles down to display a scene that looks like a wharf of some kind - but you can still see the clouds gently drifting past in the background. You feel an overwhelming urge to reach out and touch this incredible image...