"Once upon our time, there was an earthquake, the most powerful ever recorded since the invention of the Richter scale. Although earthquakes usually cause floods, this one did the reverse, drew back the ocean as a vast breath taken. The most secret level of our world lay revealed: the seabedded—wrecked ships, facades of houses, ballroom candelabra, toilet bowl, pirate chest, TV screen, mail coach, aircraft fuselage, cannon, marble torso, Kalashnikov, metal carapace of a tourist busload, baptismal font, automatic dishwasher, computer, swords sheathed in barnacles, coins turned to stone. The people who had fled from their toppling houses to the maritime hills ran down to loot the once-sunken objects".
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