Some winding blocks away from my home base, I spotted in the light of a street lamp a promising trove an unusually large pile of curbed junk that could have passed for an installation in a Chelsea gallery.

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The glow of Mombasa fades into the night behind us as our train clatters past derelict signal boxes and a decaying station lit by the feeble light of a paraffin lamp.

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After only a few minutes, the lights of the Lamanai Outpost faded into velvety darkness and the only light was a brilliant shaft from the halogen lamp at the front of the boat.

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The police detectives weary old Somerset (Morgan Freeman) and brash young Mills (Brad Pitt) search for clues by flashlight, at crime scenes where, typically, the only other source of light is a lamp with a twenty-five-watt bulb.

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You still have a light bulb or lamp as your picture source, but that's the essence of the similarities.

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