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New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.

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Djuna Barnes
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 12
Died: 1982
Died: June 18
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Writer
Cornwall on Hudson
New York
Lydia Steptoe
Impossible
Wave
Water
Horror
Found
Rose
Great
Million
Men
Window
Peering
Like
York
Caged
Return
Remained
Millions
Windows

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