“This was human glory—a sad and exhaust-darkened memorial for good citizens to ignore and drunks to piss upon on their way home from the brothels. Here was the omega-point of all ambition.”

Source: Jack Faust (1997), Chapter 19, “Ashes” (p. 317)

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