White marble and slipstream chrome, immortal crystal and burnished bronze



Behind me, the illuminated city. Searchlights swept the sky for the sheer joy of it. I imagined them thronging the plazas of white marble, orderly and alert, their bright eyes shining with enthusiasm for their floodlit avenues and silver cars.

It had all the sinister fruitiness of Hitler Youth propaganda
.

(from William Gibson's "The Gernsback Continuum")

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