2) quiver: "… the taxi driver finds the quiver of buildings." (page 78) No. Dictionary.com gives only shaking and container for arrows. Anyone out there ever run into another use? A collection of arrow-shaped buildings?
When you design a group of tall buildings, Allen Center in Houston, TX or the Embarcadero in San Francisco, CA, you have to have a more general name for the idea. Quiver works well enough. Plus a grouping of cobras is a quiver.
Still, it seems as if the word probably distracted from the story.
