Atlantis: Three Tales

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I.

Skyscrapers — that’s what he was most eager to see. But before entering the city the train dropped between earthen walls tangled with winter trees, the dirt sometimes becoming out the window, for hundreds of feet, concrete.

II.

The tallest building in the world was in New York — the Wool-worth Building. Most people knew that; but he knew, counting basements and sub-basements, the Woolworth had exactly sixty stories — and not many people knew that.

III.

Bring such information out at the right time, and people said, “What a smart boy!” which made up a little for the guilt he felt over his school grades: they’d been bad enough to silence Papa —

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