The Golden Myth

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The Golden Myth

The copper pipes in the basement of the St. Jude’s Industrial Orphanage and Home for the Aged, a sprawling Victorian monstrosity of soot-stained brick and iron latticework that dominated the fog-choked valley of Newcastle upon Tyne, ran with a viscous, amber-colored slurry that the administration called "nutrient concentrate" but which smelled, to my nose, of rotting sugar and industrial waste,...

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