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Shiny skyscrapers loom on the horizon; their squat, worn building, home to their clan since 1902, marks a contrast, nestled within a crowded complex astir with chatter and dust.

News reporters were astir and skipped this curtain scene.

And Korie’s text, which often tips into rhyme, can tend risible: “A feeling I infer of anarchy astir.”

My faculties, roused by the change of scene, the new field offered to hope, seemed all astir.

Soon the gardeners would be astir, brushing the first leaves from the lawns and the paths, raking the gravel in the drive.