"He walked out of the fire station and along the midnight street toward the subway where the silent air propelled train slid soundlessly down its lubricated flue in the earth and let him out with a great puff of warm air onto cream tiled escalator rising to the suburb."
"The Autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make a girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward."
"The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain."
"They walked in the warm-cool blowing night on the silvered pavement and there was the faintest breath of fresh apricots and strawberries in the air, and he looked around and realized this quite impossible, so late in the year."
"I sometimes think drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly."
"Have you seen the two-hundred-foot-long billboards in the country beyond town?"
Those are just from the first few pages but they give a pretty good idea.
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