In that apartment up there a young bank clerk read an architecture glossy, and in that one across there a DJ drank Cointreau on ice with a sales clerk from the “Gap” and brushed a manicured index finger along the downy hairs of her ear until she shivered. Next door a man read a box of medicine a Chinese man had given him.

Concentrated snake bile and tendril – leaved fritillary bulbs oral solution
The medicine is scientifically prepared from the snakebile and the tendril leaved fritillary bulb, etc. This is an efficacious drug for sputum crudum, cough asthma caused by cold, bronchitis and bronchitis chronic, etc. The effective rate that treats these diseases is 96.8 percent and the apparent effective rate is more than 76,8 percent.
Because it is sweet and convenient for taking, therefore it is very welcomed by diseases at home and abroad.

He put down the box and sat perfectly still. He looked out his window. Outside, the mercury street lights were coming on. He watched that. Dusk had reached the point where some of the lamps had come on but not all. Twilight falls unevenly. If it fell evenly, the lamps would come on all at once, when the uniform dusk sky reached the threshhold of darkness that triggered them.

Or those lights furthest from the darkening horizon would come on first, a wave of streetlights breaking toward the west as the sunset faded.

Outside his window lights came on in no even pattern. They burned at either end of the block, while those in the middle were just beginning to glow orange. The dusk had dark spots he couldn’t see, just deduct from watching the lamps.

Once all the lights had come on there was a small earthquake and the electrical wires and telephone lines and strings of bulbs swayed for a while. When the swaying subsided he ate something.