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First the pay telephone and next the drinking water fountain; the next thing which has dissappeared from public view at the hands of advancing technology is the clock. More and more commonly I find you cannot tell what time it is in public settings, if you have not brought some device with you.

random quip

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. -Andrew Carnegie-

I must be off to patrol the moat.