Visions of Isabelle
“The cold weather came in a flash, swirling down overnight from the Alps in a frosty wind, petrifying everything, including the juices of Alexandre Trophimovsky's precious Arizona cactus, killing whatever chance he might have had of recouping the fortune he'd put into the earth the previous spring.
The air of that winter was extraordinarily clear, the mountains seemed painted, and the trees were coated with crystals of snow so delicate that they looked unreal. Children fought duels with icic...les, dogs shivered and their barks turned hoarse, and as Christmas came upon the city, some of the owners of the larger villas ordered sculptures of the birth in the manger carved out of blocks of ice.
A group of students from the university got together and constructed, according to an engraving in an old American book, an Eskimo igloo with a mathematically perfect dome. This was such a great success that the students were able to charge a nominal fee to curious passersby who could not believe that such a house was warm inside.MoreLess
The air of that winter was extraordinarily clear, the mountains seemed painted, and the trees were coated with crystals of snow so delicate that they looked unreal. Children fought duels with icic...les, dogs shivered and their barks turned hoarse, and as Christmas came upon the city, some of the owners of the larger villas ordered sculptures of the birth in the manger carved out of blocks of ice.
A group of students from the university got together and constructed, according to an engraving in an old American book, an Eskimo igloo with a mathematically perfect dome. This was such a great success that the students were able to charge a nominal fee to curious passersby who could not believe that such a house was warm inside.MoreLess
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