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   Hi, all!   
      
   From "The Great Catsby", by F.Scott Fitzerald, again:   
      
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   About half way between West Egg and New York the motor road hastily   
   joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to   
   shrink away from a certain desolate area of land. This is a valley of   
   ashes-a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills   
   and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys   
   and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who   
   move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a   
   line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly   
   creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with   
   leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their   
   obscure operations from your sight.   
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   Although all the text is very vivid and difficult, I'd like ask why the   
   workers use "leaden spades"? IMHO lead is not a metal for spades? ;)   
      
   Bye, all!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
      
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