“Number 99 was an eviscerated ceramics plant. During the war a succession of blazing explosions had burst among the stock of thousands of chemical glazers, fused them, and splashed them into a wild rainbow reproduction of a lunar crater. Great splotches of magenta, violet, bice green, burnt umber, and chrome yellow were burned into the stone walls. long streams of orange, crimson, and imperial purple had erupted through windows and dooors to streak the streets and surrounding ruins with slashing brush stronkes. This became the Rainbow House of Chooka Frood.”

—Alfred Bester, from The Demolished Man, 1951.