The window rattled in its frame;
I think I know what is to blame.
Our house is old, a little spindly.
Oh, yeah, and it was really windy.

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He spent twenty years on the outer walls alone. The finished palace is twelve meters high and twenty-six meters long. He built it from stones he picked up on his mail route, working by oil lamp after dark, copying temples and shrines from postcards — places he'd never been. When he couldn't be buried in it, he built his own tomb instead. He was seventy-eight when he started.

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