The Electric Hotel by Dominic Smith

Author:Dominic Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
Published: 2019-06-03T23:00:00+00:00

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At about ten-thirty the earth moved into the comet’s icy tail, about thirteen million miles from its fiery head. This was the widely reported figure in the newspapers and everyone seemed to remember it, from newsboys to clergymen, because it emphasized the sheer and particular distance from calamity. Despite the intermittent clouds, New Yorkers came out of doors to see the auroral lights in the northeastern sky. People thronged onto hotel rooftops, along Broadway and Riverside Drive, packed into ferryboats and lined along the river bridges. The New York Times reported that “a million or so sky-gazers here were taking a lively interest in the heavens,” and they all wanted to glimpse the edge of something cosmic. What would the comet do to the magnetic pole, to telegraph wires and atmospheric pressure, to the family pet?

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