The Distant Machine

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14 October 1924 The damp in Prague has a taste, Elias Thorne writes to no one in particular, scratching the words onto the back of a receipt for a bottle of iodine. It tastes of copper and old pennies, a metallic tang that coats the tongue and refuses to be washed away by water or bread. I am thirty-two years old, and I am dying, or so the apothecary tells me, though he says it with the gentle,...

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