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Read the passage from "By the Waters of Babylon."
Which detail most effectively creates
an atmosphere
Then I saw the dead god. He was sitting in his chair,
of decay?
by the window, in a room I had not entered before
O *But there was wisdom in his face and great
and, for the first moment, I thought that he was alive.
sadness.
Then I saw the skin on the back of his hand-it was
like dry leather. The room was shut, hot and dry-no
O *But it is better to lose one's life than one's spirit.
doubt that had kept him as he was. At first I was afraid
• "He was sitting looking out over the city-he was
to approach him-then the fear left me. He was sitting
dressed in the clothes of the gods."
looking out over the cityhe was dressed in the
• Then I saw the skin on the back of his handit
clothes of the gods. His age was neither young nor
was like dry leather."