Conical Bore Brass

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“Eve: I’m afraid Mr. DeWitt would find me boring before too long.
Miss Caswell: You won’t bore him, honey. You won’t even get a chance to talk.”
—Joseph L. Mankiewicz (1909–1993)

“You could almost see the brass on her gleaming,
Not quite. The mist was to light what red
Is to fire. And her mainmast tapered to nothing,
Without teetering a millimeter’s measure.
The beads on her rails seemed to grasp at transparence.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)