"He looked out of his window. Lights flamed against a hectic sky; the street crawled with automobiles and a hurried, faceless crowd..."
-Poul Anderson, "Time Patrol" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (Riverdale, NY, 2010), pp. 1-53 AT 3, p. 17.
Mikael Blomkvist, Stockholm, 2003:
"Blomkvist looked down on Gotgatan, where people were hurrying by in the dark. Christmas shopping was in full swing."
-Stieg Larsson, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (London, 2008), CHAPTER 3, p. 53.
Two very similar passages - the best that I could come up with at this time of night. Till breakfast.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And we see many other similarly busy city scenes in many other stories by Anderson. Both with or without high technology.
Sean
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