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The New York Public Library

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ka·0 Page: In the novel, quote-checkedFirst seen: Prologue

Its reading-room lamps are what the green lamp on the hotel’s reception desk looks like.

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  • “like the ones in the reading room at the New York Public Library” (Prologue)paragraph 18

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