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I'm reading another fantastical novel with a contemporary, real-world-ish setting, by another Minnesota writer--Emma Bull's War for the Oaks. Given various predilections, and the book's general reputation, it's surprising I haven't made it to this one before. I suspect it was because I opened it up and saw printed lyrics.

In any case, I'm bringing it up just as an excuse to post another photo. Here's the opening paragraph:

By day, the Nicollet Mall winds through Minneapolis like a paved canal. People flow between its banks, eddying at the doors of office towers and department stores. The big red-and-white city buses roar at every corner. On the many-globed lampposts, banners advertising a museum exhibit flap in the wind that the tallest buildings snatch out of the sky. The skyway system vaults the mall with its covered bridges of steel and glass, and they, too, are full of people, color, motion.

And here's my photograph of the Nicollet Mall:

Some things are just better in prose.