The Devil in the White City
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Read between September 15 - October 4, 2024
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Daylight faded to thin broth.
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In Minneapolis there had been only silence and the inevitable clumsy petitions of potato-fingered men looking for someone, anyone, to share the agony of their days.
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as the train leaped past crossing gates waving a raccoon’s tail of white and black smoke.
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a frown in a suit,
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Trains bearing fangs of ice tore through the crossing at Wallace.
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The note clicked from theme to theme like the wheels of a train crossing a freightyard.