“Richard Wright, an American novelist of the realist school, asks a famous unfathomable question in his best-known novel, Native Son. Who knows when some slight shock, he asks, disturbing the delicate balance between social order and thirsty aspiration, shall send the skyscrapers in our cities toppling?”

— Daniel Handler , book The Penultimate Peril

Lemony Snicket (351-352)
The Penultimate Peril (2005)

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