The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The rain does not fall so much as it hangs, a suspended grey curtain that blurs the edges of the city into a smear of wet slate and flickering neon. You are standing in the center of the Grand Hall of the old Exchange, a place that smells of damp wool, old paper, and the metallic tang of iron filings. The building is a cathedral of commerce, its vaulted ceilings lost in the gloom, its columns...

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