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“I work in a giant building: forty floors and forty cubicles per wing, four wings per floor, one person and one personal computer per…

— John Engman

“The chamber was possibly the grandest she'd ever entered. The ceilings were impossibly high, held up by slender red pillars with gilded dragons snaking…

— Elizabeth Lim

“Was it home, the mercury-lit street? Was he returning like the elephant to his graveyard, to lie down and soon become ivory in whose…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Ox, at an early age a Chinese genius gazes at the path that lies ahead and reaches for a wine jar," Master Li said.…

— Barry Hughart

“A squat gray building of only thirty-four stories.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The Carpenters had a threshold more solid and extensive than the Great Wall of China. I would not be in the least bit surprised…

— Jim Butcher

“He went through rooms he named as he discovered them, and which he hardly had time to appreciate before he'd flung open a door…

— Chris Adrian

“His five feet three rested angular on the folding chair, a body small, well-wrought and somehow precious, as if it were the forgotten creation…

— Thomas Pynchon

“...it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able…

— Orhan Pamuk

“I'd fake the part for a second to infiltrate, gather intelligence, and then ditch it, laughing on my way back to the outside. That's…

— Eddie Huang

“An erect building is a shackled slave. I hear the mutinous grumbling of vertical buildings. I hear the grinding frustration of those compelled against…

— Declan Burke

“The first two rooms were in the same state as the corridor. Dirty, and piled with junk. Dead typewriters, telephones, three-legged chairs. I was…

— Hugh Laurie