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Pittsburgh,the steel city. A great forge, a layering of bucket hoists and winches, of conveyors and gearing, punch presses, stamping machines, benchers, shapers, buffers, lathes and tooling. Into this maw flowed coal and ore and electrical impulses; and out flowed uncountable metal products and hardware for a nation.
Pittsburgh: a single, automated machine, controlled by limit switches, thermocouples and programmed circuits. A vibration, a decible assault, a hot-metal stench, buried in a black shrouding of smog, cinders, grit and petroleum pollution.
For more than one hundred years no man had lived in Pittsburgh; no man could live in Pittsburgh.
As their maze car pulled into the rubble that was the maze station the smoke
started to burn their lungs, the atmosphere was caustic. Here they could hide
from Francis. See the
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