“The economy or Tarmuth is more than prostitution and piracy. The town is full of industrial yards and sidings. It lives as it has for centuries, on building of ships. The shoreline is punctuated with scores of shipyards, building slipways like weird forests of vertical girders. In some loom ghostly half-completed vessels. The work is ceaseless, load, and filthy.
The streets are crisscrossed with little private railways that take lumber or fuel or whatever from one side of Tarmuth to the other. Each different company has built its own line to link its various concerns and are jealously guarded. The town is an idiotic tangle of railways, all replicating each other’s journey.”
The Scar, China Mieville
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