Conversation · Coin-Operated Viewer
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This coin-operated viewer is facing South. The instruction manual says to insert twenty five centims and pull the handle while looking inside, then use the focus knob to zoom in if necessary.
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This coin-operated viewer is facing South. It has given up all its secrets -- there seems to be a sunken seafort on the islet in the bay...
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The curtains on the display open. You lean in to catch the view -- it's blurry, different blues and greens. In the middle of the shimmer stands a drab grey shape, like a ghost.
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The lenses shift, the ghost sharpens into an islet in the bay. In the ruins a man-made structure is visible: a half-sunken sea-fort, its concrete almost reconquered by nature.
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It looks as if it was abandoned quite some time ago, nothing but a rotten tooth remains of the anti-aircraft tower. A lonely birch tree grows out of it.
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Could the shot have come from there? Then entered the window upstairs the Whirling-in-Rags?
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"Could the shot have come from there?"
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It's not. The details are blurry, there's water vapour in the way and waves cut into the islet...
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It's not possible to know from this distance. The details are blurry, there's water vapour in the way and waves cut into the islet...
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"Really? I don't have the eyesight to make it out..." The lieutenant takes off his glasses and cleans them.
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"There was a revitalization project in '49. A design studio tried restoring Martinaise to its pre-war glory." The lieutenant looks around and concludes: "It didn't stick."
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"They got as far as the street lamps and the statue on that intersection. Then something went sour." He lowers his voice. "I suspect that something was Evrart Claire -- the Union leader. He muscled them out. It's how it usually goes around here."
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"They got as far as the street lamps and that statue on the intersection before something went sour." He lowers his voice. "I suspect it was Evrart Claire's doing. He muscled them out -- it's how it usually goes around here."
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"We should have done something about the Union ten years ago. That ship has sailed, officer."
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