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Henry Miller - The Cosmological Eye page 351

"I see among countless other things a faded flower from Death Valley, a piece of quartz from the Bad Lands, a Navajo bead, a rusty meat-axe from the slaughter-house, a drop of serum from the Cancer Institute, a louse from a Jew's beard, a street called Myrtle Avenue, a city made entirely of celluloid, another of cellophane, a cereal like dried brains called-Grape Nuts, and so on. In the dead center of the debris, thoroughly renovated and thoroughly ventilated, stands the Brooklyn Bridge."

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Brooklyn Eagle Sept 9.1888 - page 10

The gum chewing habit is fearfully prevalent among the people who ride downtown of a morning on the Brooklyn Elevated. I counted fifteen industrious chewers out of twenty-two persons in a car. Their jaws were going and there was an expression of peace on their countenances or of deep thought, that told how much more the chewing was a matter of habit than of enjoyment. They chew all the way down, and when they leave the cars at the old entrance to the bridge and ascend the flight of stairs they throw the gum out of