Riesenhallen

The turbine hall of a power station in Berlin on a September morning, cool daylight from high round-arched windows, white glazed brick walls, an iron-railed gallery, black and white octagonal floor tiles, at the left two huge dark steam turbine sets, horizontal drums with rings of bolts, a polished governor head with two gauges with blank pale faces, every casing plain and unmarked, in front the man, a man of seventy-two, short white full beard, pince-nez, light soft felt hat, dark overcoat, arm in arm with a stocky white-haired man in a bowler hat seen from directly behind, face turned fully away.