‘Good.’ He sounded relieved, as if he’d expected a different answer. ‘Incidentally, we checked out the field where Verge kept his glider. The plane’s gone.’
‘Ah.’
‘So I’ll see you soon then?’
‘I’m on my way.’
Author’s note
The book which Brock notices in Sandy Clarke’s office in Chapter 4, on the work of Ledoux, and from which the passage on Doctor Tornotary is quoted, is Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture and Social Reform at the End of the Ancien Régime, by Anthony Vidler, The MIT Press, 1990.
The essay about architects and the great detective, which Gail Lewis refers to in Chapter 21, is ‘Program versus Paradigm: Otherwise Casual Notes on the Pragmatic, the Typical, and the Possible’, by Colin Rowe, in his book, As I Was Saying: Recollections and Miscellaneous Essays: Volume Two, The MIT Press, 1996.
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