Word: skylights
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...Bathtubs. The real kind, footed and very deep, preferably with a skylight and ubiquitous bottles of Mr. Bubble. Obscure books to read in the bath (e.g. History of Troy). These are infinitely preferable to the flagging water pressure and occasional infestations of fourth-floor showers. The latter, however, are much better for productivity: It is impossible to take a bubble bath in less than forty-five minutes...
...Library, which opened in 1996, was meant to become a literary monument. In contrast to its predecessor, sometimes called "a urinal with books," the new building is architecturally immaculate: The gleaming white-tiled facade is both dignified and contemporary, while inside, a white atrium rises to a huge round skylight that fills the building with light...
...Skylight...
Three women wearing curious hoods approach him in a deserted alleyway--fans, he guesses--and the next thing he knows he is chained hands and feet to the floor of a stark white room with only a skylight in the high ceiling to remind him of the outside world. "You belong to us," one of the women tells him. "You're ours...