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So writes Jack Finney in Time and Again, his glorious and loving portrait of the New York City of 1882 as seen through the eyes of a late-twentieth-century time traveler. Even at that time, New York was a great metropolis of almost two million people, most living in Manhattan.
There were lights, thousands of them, hut of no brightness: these were thousands of tiny flecks affecting the darkness not at all; they were gaslights, most of them, white at this distance and almost steady; but there was candlelight, too, and I supposed, kerosene. No colors, no neon, nothing to read, just a vast blackness pricked with lights...
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Upgren, A. (1998). The Brightness of the Night Sky. In: Night Has a Thousand Eyes. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6072-6_12
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