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En ledtråd till, kanske? Allt i citatet är metafor. Flera av orden i citatet återfinns i bokens titel.
 
Jag hade inget bra citat på lager. Här får ni ett ändå:

"When [NAMN] came out on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake--not a very big one."
 
JohanL said:
Stämmer bra! Den fullständiga titeln är The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark.
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Faaaaan!
Kände så otroligt mycket igen citatet men det satt för långt inne, den där boken har jag ändå läst flera gånger och gett bort i present minst en gång.
 
French's occupied a square block in the heart of the mid-town section of New York, on Fifth Avenue. On the borderline between the more fashionable upper avenue and the office-building district farther downtown, it catered to a mixed patronage of wealth and penury. At the noon hour its broad aisles and six floors were crowded with shop girls and stenographers; in mid-afternoon the tone of its clientele improved perceptibly. It boasted at once therefore the lowest prices, the most modern models, the widest assortment of saleable articles, in New York. As a result of this compromise between attractive prices and exclusive merchandise it was the most popular department store in the city. From nine o'clock in the morning until five-thirty in the evening French's was thronged with shoppers, the sidewalks surrounding the marble structure and its many wings almost impassable.

Cyrus French, pioneer department store owner, assisted by his associate Board, exerted the full financial strength of his powerful organization to make French's—an institution of two generations of French ownership—the show place of the city. In those days, long before the artistic movement had been communicated in the United States to the more practical articles of use and wear, French's had already made contact with its European representatives and held public exhibitions of art objects, art furniture, and kindred modernistic ware. These exhibits attracted huge crowds to the store. One of its main windows fronting Fifth Avenue was devoted to exhibits of periodically imported articles. This window became the focal point for the eyes of all New York. Curious throngs constantly besieged its sheathing of plate glass.
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