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Part 18: Pastures New - Part 2 Barn Raising
Continued from p.276 M.E.4749 August 9
In Part 1 of the latest missive, a mechanical mule unwittingly entertained a member of the local constabulary sipping a hot beverage (the policeman, not the mule). Having fulfilled his civic duty and bidden farewell to the pseudo-wildlife, your fearless author was left with a strange formation in his back garden which was, worryingly, decidedly single storey in its overall appearance.
Three-dimensional puzzles
As with many space-constrained cities, New York - and the island of Manhattan in particular - has made remarkably creative use of its limited footprint. Of course, there's the subway system which, like the London underground, is a work of engineering genius largely hidden from view, and Grand Central Terminal, with its simultaneously spectacular, soothing and cathedral-like above-surface spaces (which, being…
