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The emphasis is on getting the landscape to echo, very precisely, the mood; Caron uses the phrase “pathetic fallacy”.

With pathetic fallacy worthy of Shakespeare, rain and wind lashed the island of Manhattan as I clutched my voice recorder from the back seat of my taxi heading uptown.

The Victorian critic John Ruskin coined the phrase “pathetic fallacy” to describe the morbid attribution of human feelings to animals and inanimate objects.

I like a little pathetic fallacy now and again, but that is as far as it goes.

The whole landscape is grey and dark with pathetic fallacy, as though you have been transported to a 19th-century novel.