obsidity

china mieville
"The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke down.The day progressed in an endless sequence of dead moments. Birds and wyrmen lingered in the sky like particles of filth in water. Church bells rang desultory and insincere praise for Palgolak and Solenton. The rivers oozed eastward."
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"The sun was sinking behind the foothills to the west, making them magnificent and portentous. But they could not challenge the chaotic majesty of Perdido Street Station.
Lights flickered on across its vast and untrustworthy topography, and it recieved the now-glowing trains into its bowels like offerings. The Spike skewered the clouds like a spear held ready, but it was nothing beside the station: a little concrete addendum to the great disreputable leviathan building, wallowing in fat satisfaction in the city-sea."

yeah.just say that last bit from the colon on out loud...you'll see what I mean.
Ah and as papwheelie pointed out, I do mean the dots and not the intestine.
eh what does it matter, noone will read it anyway. I am alone in my worship of this man's descriptive genius.