13th April 2011 - High Arctic@National Maritime Museum

At the ticket counter the woman says "Do you know anything about the exhibition" and I say "no" even though I do, and she says "Oh. Well its not like a normal exhibition" and I say "OK" and she says. "er, there's no exhibition, as such. Its, er, interactive" and I say "OK" and we buy tickets.
Downstairs at the door an old lady hands us each a torch "these are ultra-violet torches. Its very important that you point them down at the floor and not in people's eyes" and her own eyes glitter when she says it but then she looks down at the floor.
We go in.
It is like being at sea, it is like being in the belly of a whale. A voice says "you lie to yourself because you are afraid of the dark"

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