ATD: Chicago 1893: "and if it happened to break precisely over one's head, "

[pynchonoid]

[...]  Men died like flies under the strain, and
Boston grew suddenly old, haggard, and thin. Adams
alone waxed fat and was happy, for at last he had got
hold of his world and could finish his education,
interrupted for twenty years. He cared not whether it
were worth finishing, if only it amused; but he
seemed, for the first time since 1870, to feel that
something new and curious was about to happen to the
world. Great changes had taken place since 1870 in the
forces at work; the old machine ran far behind its
duty; somewhere -- somehow -- it was bound to break
down, and if it happened to break precisely over one's
head, it gave the better chance for study. [...] 

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/hadams/eha22.html
 CHAPTER XXII    CHICAGO (1893) 

"What if it should hit exactly--ahh, no--for a split
second you'd have to feel the very point, with the
terrible mass above, strike the top of the skull...."
[GR 7] 




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