 What is ironic about Eric's contempt for the glass edifice over New York City?
In five more minutes their car had whipped up to the base of another building, in the business section, where there was no room for parks between the mighty structures that held the unbroken glass roofs two hundred stories above the concrete pavement. The thin man in black, whom Eric now recognized as a prominent French heart-specialist, was dancing before the window, waving his bag frantically, raving at the sleepy boy.
 Something similar might have protected him and Nada from the harsh Venusian elements
 If the glass was penetrated, he and Nada and all of New York would immediately perish  Its invention was inspired by the author of one of Eric's favorite science fiction novels  Something similar might have protected him and Nada from the harsh Venusian elements  Similar inventions are main features in his science fiction novels