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"Victorian drains, as with the cloud, performed a second sleight of hand: they transmuted waste into its etymological twin, vastness. Both waste and vastness derive from the Latin vastus- desolate, but also empty, expansive. The drains cleansed the waste from each household and also provided a never-ending supply of fast-running water... a (seemingly) unlimited resource that could be summoned on command."