"The Green Lantern[a café] occupies the ground floor of a multistory building that was constructed out of a series of utilitarian concrete slabs sometime in the late 1970's. The large front window, with its overpainted and peeling border in an unattractive dark green, is fly-struck and streaked with grime; and multicolored plastic strips hang down over the entrance in a continuous sticky curtain... two men in button-down shirts are seated at opposite ends, heads bent over their newspapers, bald spots leveled at passersby... beside the door is a large gimmicky carriage lantern missing several panes of glass, also green. Okay, I think. We get it." (Page 31, Exile by Rebecca Lim)
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