Tact Machines of Santa Croce
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Astounding Stories of Super-Science May 2001: A ROOM WITH A VIEW - Chapter II - In Santa Croce with No Baedeker
By E. M. Forster
It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room, with a floor of red tiles which look clean though they are not; with a painted ceiling whereon pink griffins and blue amorini sport in a forest of yellow violins and bassoons. It was pleasant, too, to fling wide the windows, pinching the fingers in unfamiliar fastenings, to lean out into sunshine with beautiful hills and trees and marble churches opposite, and close below, the...
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