history suggested that the monuments of the overreaching could last a very long time. True, the men who had built these monuments (or rather, caused them to be built) were gone. But one generation after the next, new versions of the moguls had appeared, ready to assume the thrones and pursue their whims with the same presumption of preordainment. No, thought Eve, one can’t count on the sands of the desert or the winds of the Santa Ana to undo the works of the single-minded. For the world to have any sense of justice, a team of artisans had to come forward with their hammers and paintbrushes
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