hotel room, 12th floor quotes

• 'helicopter skirting like a damaged insect'
• 'jumbo sized dentist drill'
• 'uncivilized darkness is shot at by a million lit windows'
• 'between a radio and a television set'
• 'the wildest of warwhoops'
• 'ululating' -
• 'harsh screams from cold water flats'
• 'no stockades/ can keep the midnight out'
• 'the broken bones, the harsh screaming'
• 'the glittering canyons and gulches'