The Avon
Place
Also appears as: North Bank of the Avon
Muddy Bristol river and reduced wine-dark sea. Carries its burden past Hotwells with majestic indifference to the gymnasium.
Appears in
- Amoeba Dick chapters:
- Odour Issues chapters:
Connections
Who is found here
- Philippa Cafferty ← lives aboard vessel moored on (2 passages)
Nearby and related places
- Phaeacia ← moored on (1 passage)
From the books (2 passages)
Withal, change was afoot. For the vortex or trough or, if you will, depression deepened. Across that Road, the Avon as ever bore those muddy waters off, to limn the Bristol Channel with new contours of silt. Only, now that mighty river brimmed, the riparine gods bid to burst their banks, to make inruption into the civitas. Drains blocked, boats in dry dock floated, ground floor offices and homesteads sought…
…The vessel in question was moored immovably to a jetty on the North Bank of the Avon, just across the Hotwells Road from Pex ’n’ Quads, where it pleased Miss Cafferty vey occasionally indeed to attend the classes - of somewhat questionable propriety - given by that notably snake-hipped and lithe gentleman Ageing Hippus the Yoga God.