"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.
Kaor, Paul!
ReplyDeleteAnd we see many other similarly busy city scenes in many other stories by Anderson. Both with or without high technology.
Sean