‘Clouds … They’re still passing, some of them so huge it seems they’ll fill the whole sky … while others are of indefinite size, being perhaps two together or one that’s going to split in two … and still others are small, as if they were playthings of powerful beings, odd-shaped balls of some absurd game and now placed to one side of the sky, in cold isolation.’
From _The Book of Disquiet (1988), a posthumously published novel by Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, based on a translation by Richard Zenith_.
In the distance to the left, a Cumulonimbus capillatus storm cloud and, in the foreground to the right, a Cirrus spissatus cumulonimbogenitus (that is, a thick patch of high ice-crystal cloud left behind as a Cumulonimbus dissipated away), spotted over Batz-sur-Mer, France, by Matt Minshall (Member 7,721).
