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'It was morning everywhere. It was morning in Dayton and Denver and Seattle. ... It was morning on the tin roofs of factories and on the mountian peaks, morning in the fields and parking lots, morning in the rented rooms where women with no money did what they could to keep their children alive and healthy – where they hoped, given what they had to work with, to make them happy, at least some of the time.'

'He wondered if all the machines at the works, all the furnaces and hooks and belts, mutely admired their men, as horses admired their masters. He wondered if they waited with their immense patience for the moment their men would lose track of themselves, let their caution lapse so the machines could take their hands with loving firmness and pull them in.'