The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The air in the Hall of Sanitation and Public Health did not smell of sickness, as one might expect, but of a sterile, aggressive chemical sweetness that clung to the back of the throat like a persistent phantom, a scent that Margaret Vane had learned to associate with the slow, grinding machinery of her own dissolution, which was currently being processed, analyzed, and ultimately rejected by...

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