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''It was a city of eyes. There were thousands of them -- the eyes of security guards, video cameras mounted on the walls of government buildings, closed-circuit surveillance systems. HoJo, the eight-fingered Dominican from the soup kitchen, claimed that every statue in Washington, D.C. -- if you looked closely enough -- had pinhole cameras for pupils....'' From GARY KRIST's novel Chaos Theory (Random House, $24)
''On 10 July 1881, overloaded with a detachment of seasick American soldiers and a cargo ranging from 200 scientific instruments to 2,000 pounds of canned potatoes, the Proteus, which had left St. John's harbor only forty-eight hours before, was suddenly battered by heavy seas.'' From Ghosts of Cape Sabine: The Harrowing True Story of the Greely Expedition (Putnam, $27.95), by LEONARD F. GUTTRIDGE
