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They are the queen and king of carefully calibrated consistency, and one wishes that from time to time Mr. Serrano would follow their lead and lose some of the repetition and one-word paragraphs.

Within a single paragraph, we are told that time “was flying by,” that someone “stopped in his tracks” while others “hurried breathlessly.”

Penelope raced through the next few paragraphs, and then turned to the next page, and the one after that, but it was simply more of the same.

Even so, she promised herself that she would not read so much as a paragraph within an hour of her bedtime, for it seemed the kind of tale that was likely to cause bad dreams.

And the first paragraph: Terrified earthquake survivors sought the safety of open ground Tuesday as the enormity of Turkey’s tragedy became clear: more than 2,000 people killed, 10,000 injured, and thousands more missing.