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...brief sojourn under the Charles River and the train is exposed to the rational sunlight at a stop called "Community College." A large white building nearby proclaims itself in modernistic lettering as "ECTURE." Otherwise only railroad yards and sand an gravel companies to be seen, No one gets off the train at Community College and no one gets...
Krakatoa's Activity. Even a single major volcanic outburst adds so much dust to the atmosphere that it reduces the amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface; the result can be a brief but noticeable cooling of global climate. After the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, for instance, unusually cool weather was reported in many parts of the world for several years. The evidence is still preserved in the annual growth rings of old trees. Only recently, scientists at the University of Arizona's tree-ring laboratory discovered disturbed rings in California trees, dating back...
...every one of the keys of my typewriter I am the clean white pages and the word sprawled used ones, I am the sunlight on my own walls--rip off your dress, life, tear off your clothes, world, left me come closer listen: I am a sated, tired, happy writer have to make love to the world...
...seems to be at the very center of all the action. His is, in any case, a poor fiefdom, a small hunk of downtown territory in an unnamed city that is clearly Los Angeles. Cooper holds court in bars, keeps a small, dusty office in which even the sunlight is encrusted. He is a fixer and a mover: he puts up bail bond, regulates the steady flow of petty crime in the neighborhood. Cooper also has eyes to expand his holdings on behalf of some higher-ups and take over a whole block of abandoned warehouses, where hijacked goods...
Telephone Booth. Early Egyptian and Indian sufferers treated certain skin diseases with some success by swallowing a powder made from a local plant and exposing themselves to sunlight...