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Which quotation from the essay helps to create the humorous tone in "Here is New York"? “Not many among them have ever spent a drowsy afternoon in the great rustling oaken silence of the reading room of the Public Library, with the book elevator (like an old water wheel) spewing out books onto the trays.” “He is desk-bound, and has never, idly roaming in the gloaming, stumbled suddenly on Belvedere Tower in the Park, see the ramparts rise sheer from the water of the pond,…” “…it makes no difference: each embraces New York with the intense excitement of first love, each absorbs New York with the fresh yes of an adventurer,…” “The commuter is the queerest bird of all. The suburb he inhabits has no essential vitality of its own and is a mere roost where he comes at day’s end to go to sleep.”

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