“His eyes measured the little chamber.”

—  J. G. Ballard, book Empire of the Sun

Source: Empire of the Sun (1984), p. 8
Context: His eyes measured the little chamber. How two people could survive in so small a space was as difficult to grasp as the conventions in contract bridge. Perhaps there was some simple key that would solve the problem, and he would have the subject of another book.

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