Edward Hopper Excursion into Philosophy

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Murderers!"
"We gonna kill you!"
"You got our knife!"
"You don' come from here!"
"You gonna die!"
Will took no notice. He had the knife out already, and swiftly cut a small window to see where they were—only to recoil at staircase began to bend under the weight of the children crowding on it, and then it swung down and fell with a huge crash. More screams, more confusion; and again the gun went off, but this time by accident, it seemed. Someone had been hit, and the scream was of pain this time, and Will looked down to see a tangle of writhing bodies covered in plaster and dust and blood.once. Lyra looked too, and fell back in disappointment. They were fifty feet or so in the air, high above a main road busy with traffic."Of course," Will said bitterly, "we came up a slope… Well, we're stuck. We'll have to hold them off, that's all."Another few seconds and the first children were crowding in through the door. The sound of their yelling echoed in the temple and reinforced their wildness; and then came a gunshot, enormously loud, and another, and the screaming took another tone, and then the stairs began to shake as the first ones climbed up.Lyra was crouching paralyzed against the wall, but Will still had the knife in his hand. He scrambled over to the opening in the floor and reached down and sliced through the iron of the top step as if it were paper. With nothing to hold it up, the