"Modern? How peculiar. I thought--well, probably like most of us, that the buildings were coming from Arcana lands. What languages were the books in? The same one? Electric or gas stove, or--"

She makes a face. "I came out here to stop thinking about all this. It's interesting, though. I suppose some enterprising Arcanum--Arcanist? Trump? Anyway, no reason why they couldn't have newer books, but I always had the impression most of them didn't visit Outside often. I know Christophe wasn't familiar with TVs or video games." Assumptions would be the death of her.