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"As night fell": Helen A. Harrison, "The Fair Perceived: Color and Light as Elements in Design and Planning," in Dawn of a New Day: The New York World's Fair, 1939/40 (New York: New York University Press, 1980), p. 46.
"bore an uncanny resemblance": Ibid.
"Even the drabbest": Ibid., pp. 46–47.
[>] "It's easy to see": Keating, Lamps for a Brighter America, photo, insert after p. 184.
CHAPTER 15: WARTIME: THE RETURN OF OLD NIGHT
[>] "The earth grew spangled": Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Night Flight, trans. Stuart Gilbert (New York: Century, 1932), p. 8.
[>] "Experience has shown": Quoted in Williamson Murray, War in the Air, 1914–1945 (London: Cassell, 1999), pp. 69–70.
[>] Those in the steel industry: Terence H. O'Brien, Civil Defense (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office and Longmans, Green, 1955), p. 229n.
[>] Without streetlights: Ibid., p. 322.
[>] "From different angles": Vera Brittain, England's Hour (New York: Macmillan, 1941), pp. 213–14.
[>] October 15 saw: Angus Calder, The People's War: Britain, 1939–45 (New York: Pantheon Books, 1969), p. 168.
"Whatever part of London": Brittain, England's Hour, p. 121.
"the clatter of little": Calder, The People's War, p. 170.
"Yet another raider": Graham Greene, The Ministry of Fear, in 3 by Graham Greene (New York: Viking Press, 1948), p. 19.
"Over the night": Brittain, England's Hour, p. 113.
"[They] had taken over": Henry Moore and John Hedgecoe, Henry Moore: My Ideas, Inspiration and Life as an Artist (London: Collins & Brown, 1999), p. 170.
222 "And amid the grim": Ibid.
"a pure and curious": Elizabeth Bowen, quoted in Calder, The People's War, p. 173.
"What surrounded us": Hans Erich Nossack, The End: Hamburg, 1943, trans. Joel Agee (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), PP. 37–38
[>] "There is said": "Mission Develops U.S. Civil Defense," New York Times, February 14, 1941, p. 6.
[>] "Get off the streets": "Fog Blanket Aids in Blackout Test of All Manhattan," New York Times, May 23, 1942, p. 1.
"The crowds melted into,": Ibid., pp. 1–2.
[>] "As the lights came on": Ibid., p. 2.
"For every undraped window": "London Lights Up Somewhat Hesitantly; War Habits Persist After End of Blackout," New York Times, April 24, 1945, p. 19.
"The few householders": Ibid.
CHAPTER 16: LASCAUX DISCOVERED
[>] "I made myself": Marcel Ravidat, quoted in Mario Ruspoli, The Cave of Lascaux: The Final Photographs (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1987), p. 188.
[>] "We raised the lamp": Ibid.
"Like a trail": Ibid., p. 189.
Scientists and archaeologists: The names of the chambers of the Lascaux Cave and the figures in them are from Norbert Aujoulat, Lascaux: Movement, Space, and Time, trans. Martin Street (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2005), p. 30.
[>] "in a prairie": Ibid., p. 191.
"The lights were never": Ruspoli, The Cave of Lascaux, pp. 180, 182, 183.
PART IV
[>] "Science tells us": Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1962), p. 193.
"Nothing, storm or flood": Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (New York: Random House, 1995), p. 7.
CHAPTER 17: BLACKOUT, 1965
[>] "...we have built": Robinson Jeffers, "The Purse-Seine," in Rock and Hawk: A Selection of Shorter Poems, ed. Robert Hass (New York: Random House, 1987), p. 191.
By 1960, on the twenty-fifth: Statistics on Rural Electrification are from The Rural Electric Fact Book (Washington, DC: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, 1960), pp. 3, 56.
[>] "It is scarcely": R. R. Bowker, ed., "Electricity," no. 12 in The Great American Industries series, Harper's, October 1896, p. 728.
"In times of normal": Paul L. Montgomery, "And Everything Was Gone," in The Night the Lights Went Out, ed. A. M. Rosenthal (New York: New American Library, 1965), p. 19.
[>] "A slight variation": John Noble Wilford and Richard F. Shepard, "Detective Story," in The Night the Lights Went Out, p. 84.
"is like a game": Matthew L. Wald, Richard Pérez-Peña, and Neela Banerjee, "The Blackout: What Went Wrong; Experts Asking Why Problems Spread So Far," New York Times, August 16,