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Updated: May 19, 2025
Look where I'm pointing!" "Ah! somebody's left a packing-box in one of the elevator-shafts, eh?" Certainly, more than anything else, that was what it resembled. At the first glance it appeared to be nothing more than a crude wooden case about the size of an elevator car, standing in one of the shafts and contrasting unpleasantly with the other new, shining polished cars.
Just as I think of the big cities as agglomerations pierced everywhere by elevator-shafts full of movement, so I think of them as being threaded, under pavements and over roofs and between floors and ceilings and between walls, by millions upon millions of live filaments that unite all the privacies of the organism and destroy them in order to make one immense publicity!
The ancient stair-way, leading down, he could not find. But by clambering down one of the elevator-shafts, digging toes and fingers into the crevices in the metal framework and the cracks in the concrete, he managed at last to reach a vaulted sub-cellar, festooned with webs, damp, noisome and obscure.
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