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| | Fourth-Rate Reader: A Crack in the Edge of the World (Simon Winchester) |
 | | A Crack in the Edge of the World (Simon Winchester) |
 | | A year, and a country, and a president, all of them a balance, all expectant and optimistic and apprehensive by turns as a whole world of changes—changes political, psychological, social, and, most of all, scientific—began to sweep in from the future. |
 | | The year, in a state of such fine equilibrium, was unusually vulnerable to the unexpected, causing the eruption of Vesuvius and the destruction of San Francisco to cast a disproportionately long shadow on science, society, philosophy, religion, and art. |
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