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1 " Looking up from the narrow cobblestone pavement of Dyott Street, he couldn’t see anything more than the overhanging eaves above the third-floor windows, but the westering sun threw a segmented silhouette of the building’s roof onto the walls of a couple of old lodging houses across the street, and, looking that way, Fairchild could see the spidery shadow of the wooden tower that stood between the chimneys up there. He thought he could even make out a blur at the top of the tower, which would be the clown…thinking. "
― Tim Powers , The Properties of Rooftop Air
2 " What made him shift each boot from one step to the next one down, and then the other boot to the one below that, was the thought of being able to read books. He had of course seen the things many times, and had seen people peer into pages and then raise their heads knowing things they hadn’t known before. "
