He tugs on the polymer line he has tied to the base of the water tank: firm. In four seconds he can usually put one man down, sometimes two. He favors skylights, uses them whenever possible: the crash, the shower of jagged glass-these can work for him, frighten and startle his prey, confuse them for four or five seconds. A breeze off the North River with the last nip of winter in it sends a candy wrapper skittering across the tar paper the howl of an ambulance echoes in the street behind this building. There are moments when he feels he wraps this sprawling, hideous metropolis around himself like a second cloak, and he knows he could never have become what he is anywhere else. Many have called it the ugliest city in the world, all sharp angles and rigid planes, black against a sky that is never blue, nor black, nor any color he can name, a sky that seems to trap light from the streets below and transform it into something wan and dingy. Water tank a dozen yards away, and beyond that the bulkier silhouettes of the Gotham City skyline. He scans the area and sees nothing has changed: the conical silhouette of a He stands poised: weight forward, knees bent, waiting, almost ready. Delany The Einstein IntersectionĬontents Part 1 – Knightfall Part 2 – Knightquest Part 3 – Knightsend Afterward Larry Hama Endings to be useful must be inconclusive. TO MARIFRAN, with love and no more squalor than is absolutely necessary If you read this electronic version, please donate 25 cents to the children’s charity of your choice. This book is out of print and is provided as a backup of the hardcopy of the book that you already own. Some hard returns may still exist in the doc, as well has hard hyphenations Released in RTF format This is the first book that I have scanned, and it went relatively painless. I moved the typical “front of book” stuff to the end of the file to increase readability. Clean-up took about half a week of part-time effort. I was able to complete half the book in under 2 hours. Scanning information: This book was scanned in just under a week, part time.
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