In the background, a horse's head peers ominously out of the gloom.
That morning Roubini and Faber were out doing their typical Gloom and Doom show, scaring the wits out of anyone who would listen.
There was no moon, and the stars were high and faint, but the rails shone clear and far, as if they were gathering, out of the poverty of darkness, the light that had been scattered in the gloom.
"There's a lot of stuff out there about doom and gloom, " Laura Rich, one of the three co-founders, says.
But whatever advantages are eked out through tactical guile, Labour's main problem, aside from the economic gloom, is the perception that it has run out of ideas.
Still, for the moment gloom is out of fashion.
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Men in rubber reptile suits crept through the gloom, and cars ran out of gas on spooky backwoods lanes.
The gloom and doom theorists came out of the woodwork again.
There were, we should point out, some bright spots even in the deepest gloom of the recession.
"With lambing only a few months away, that would send out a positive signal to producers and help lift some of the gloom generated by one of the more difficult seasons on record, " he said.
Shining a torch into the gloom reveals boulders swept away in the lava flow, and shelves of rock running downhill and out of sight.
The nagging worry in the minds of European policymakers right now ought to be how that continued gloom is going to play out politically.
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