twenty-storied

Updated: June 9, 2025

Go to New York and look at the twenty-storied, sky-scrapers built by the Adamses. They look like houses out of a story by Dean Swift. The wildest dreams of architecture. Yet they don't fall down; they serve their purpose, for the dreamers who built them were at bottom practical men. As he paced the deck, smoking and contemplating the moonlit river, Maxine gave place in his mind to her father.

H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole - The Pools of Silence