![]() ![]() ![]() A less charitable alternative is that The Waterworks is basically a short story, and Doctorow needs all the help he can get to bulk it out to 250 pages. Doctorow - Google Books One rainy morning in 1871 young Martin Pemberton, walking down Broadway in lower Manhattan, sees in a passing horse-drawn omnibus several old. One is that the narrator, McIlvaine, is a 19th-century journalist and this sort of cadencing was much in vogue at the time, just as Edgar Allen Poe got a quantity discount from his printer for dashes. There are two possible explanations for this maddening tic. This page has 22 sets and it is by no means atypical. anything, but the most obvious is that it has suspension dots like some people have acne. There are lots of things wrong with that sentence, notably the fact that. but not by that sustaining idea of a future that only comes humming in the secret aliveness that everyone can see except the two idiotic. 'For if you think about it, we live mostly by habit. IT IS fairly common to finish a novel feeling that it hasn't quite come off, much rarer to feel that in one respect it could have been improved by a simple mechanical operation at the editorial stage. ![]()
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