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...those days as having "the only really secluded location to be obtained near the square . . . quiet and secluded, for Linden Street is used by only a few dozen people a day." The building had a "solid mahogany vestibule . . . marble floors . . . walls sheathed with antique oak . . . stairways lighted by stain glass windows . . . and speaking tubes and electric bells to the janitor...
...toughest problems in biology is how to take a microscope picture of a healthy living cell. Most tissue cells, whether animal or vegetable, are transparent to ordinary light. To make them visible they must be stained, and the stain either kills them or sickens them. They can be seen with special ultraviolet microscopes, but strong ultraviolet is also deadly to cells; only the picture of a tiny corpse appears in the photomicrograph...
...Snopes. The other Faulkner world is the one he has made his own: mythical Yoknapatawpha County in northern Mississippi, a landscape haunted by an unsettled past and an unwanted future. The past survives in the memory of the old South, its code of courage and chivalry, its moral stain of slavery. The future is the creeping new world of Northern commerce and industry; in Faulkner's view, it promises to make life impersonal, mechanized and "depthless...
...stationed in the rear of the hall against just such an emergency, finally located the light switch, then nabbed 13 suspects as they headed for the door. When the intruders had been hauled off to jail, the shaken poets resumed their readings. "This," declared one, pointing to an egg stain on his coat, "is a decoration from the international brigades in Stalin's service...
...setting is a cheap tenement in New York. Helen Brown (of Columbus, Ohio, and Miss Rhumba Queen of 1947) is being thrown out of her room because hse has no money. Her landlady hints that her reputation is not without stain. As she is packing to leave, the new tenant moves in. It is a young saxophone player from Minneapolis, a clean-cut young man. He tells her she can share the room with him. She thinks he's an innocent rube, he thinks she's a super-cynic...