All cities are the same, and all cities are different. They all have colors. Some are gray. This one was brown. Reacher guessed the brick was made from local clay
and carried the color of old farmland into the facades. Even the stone was flecked with
tan, like it carried deposits of iron. There were accents
of red here and there, like old barns. It was a warm place, not busy, but it was surviving. It
would rebound
after the tragedy. There was progress and optimism and
dynamism.
Text: Lee Child, One Shot. New York, Delacorte
Press, 2005.
Paintings: Algernon Newton. Upper: The Surrey Canal, Camberwell, 1935. Lower:
Birmingham with the Hall of Memory, 1929.
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