The rhythms started on a Tuesday, or maybe a Wednesday. Percival...

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The rhythms started on a Tuesday, or maybe a Wednesday. Percival Beaumont could not remember which, because in the cypress swamp there was no clock, no calendar, only the slow arc of the sun across the sky and the patient way the Mississippi moved.

He sat on the hollow hull of the skiff—a small flat-bottomed boat that had belonged to someone who was now dead or gone or both—and struck the wood with a stone. The sound was deep and resonant, like a drum that had been singing since before anyone was alive to hear it. He beat three strokes, paused, then two. Then three. Then one. It was a rhythm he used to play on piano keys—Scott Joplin's...

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