The Sirens of Titan

He climbed from bowl to bowl, intending when he got to the top to see whence he had come and whither he was bound. Standing now in the topmost, in the smallest of the baroque fountain's bowls, standing with his feet in the ruins of birds' nests, Malachi Constant looked out over the estate, and over a large part of Newport and Narragansett Bay. ................
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