An alarm went off well over an hour ago from somewhere in the vicinity, I think from the main building opposite, and has been remorselessly disturbing the evening peace ever since. I'm not sure that our security people are doing anything to attend to this, but it doesn't seem likely as presumably that would have entailed the alarm being switched off some time ago. It's an oddly modern sound. Relentless and insistent, unvarying in its electronic obsessiveness. A sort of manic, mindless pulse.
Fifi has just asked the obvious question, one full of foreboding: What if it goes on all night?
As I prepare for bed, I must say I'd really rather not consider that.
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