By: Frank L. Pollock

“The Platte Building is tuned to B flat.”

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“They are coming to the end of their tether, you see.”

By: Frank L. Pollock

It seemed impossible that the fabric could endure longer.

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“We are the inevitable…”

By: Frank L. Pollock

The oscillation of the building was really alarming.

By: Frank L. Pollock

Bond foresaw a golden harvest.

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“She was so — so terrible.”

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“Even in my own eyes I was merely a symbol…”

By: Naomi Mitchison

“They began singing ‘All through the night’ to steady themselves.”

By: Naomi Mitchison

“It’s a bad business being at the end of a period of civilization.”

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

“That is the act of a great man.”

By: Naomi Mitchison

“We can’t afford to give up the Good.”

By: Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer

She was something that one could not look at for glow.

By: Naomi Mitchison

“The numbers were put into a very beautiful silver jar…”

By: Naomi Mitchison

“They had each drawn their number after the soup…”