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"In the" sounds like it's going on for a while — a chapter or two. "At the" sounds like a point on a line: he describes everything in one or two paragraphs and then moves on. Both are grammatical...
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#4: Attribution notice removed
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2019-12-13T11:59:57Z (about 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T01:31:40Z (about 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
"In the" sounds like it's going on for a while — a chapter or two. "At the" sounds like a point on a line: he describes everything in one or two paragraphs and then moves on. Both are grammatically correct, but I think they have slightly different shades of meaning.
#1: Imported from external source
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2011-04-17T00:56:54Z (over 13 years ago)
Original score: 4