midday
-LSB- - They - -RSB- -LCB- + The + -RCB- sky is green and cold in our windows to the east . The shadow on the sundial marks off a half-hour while we dress and eat our breakfast in the dining hall , where there are five long tables with twenty clay plates and twenty clay cups on each table . Then we go to work in the streets of the City , with our brooms and our rakes . In five hours , when the sun is high , we return to the Home and we eat our midday meal , for which one-half hour is allowed . Then we go to work again . In five hours , the shadows are blue on the pavements , and the sky is blue with a deep brightness which is not bright . We come back to have our dinner , which lasts one hour .