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Lafcadio Hearn
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Kokoro
Lafcadio Hearn
Book Excerpt: ...sm, which is a street, between mountains, which are houses. I am tired, because I have walked many miles between those precipices of masonry, and have trodden no earth, --only slabs of rock, --and have heard nothing but thunder of tumult. Deep below those huge pavements I know there is a cavernous world tremendous: systems underlying systems of ways contrived for water and steam and fire. On either hand tower facades pierced by scores of tiers of windows, --cliffs of architecture shutting out the sun. Above, the pale blue streak of sky is cut by a maze of spidery lines, --an infinite cobweb of electric wires. In that block on the right there dwell nine thousand souls; the tenants of the edifice facing it pay the annual rent of a million dollars. Seven millions scarcely covered the cost of those bulks overshadowing the square beyond, --and there are miles of such. Stairways of steel and cement, of brass and stone, with costliest balustrades, ascend through the decades and double-decades of stories; but no foot tr
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 30, 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9798683755546 |
Publishers | Independently Published |
Pages | 230 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 12 mm · 312 g |
Language | English |
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