The Golden Compass

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The leather strap of the compass was worn thin, the gold casing dulled by twenty years of my thumbs rubbing it in moments of uncertainty. I held it in my left hand, the needle frozen pointing southeast, a fixed error in a world that was supposed to be navigable. It was a gift from my father, a man who believed that if you stared long enough at a direction, you would eventually arrive there. I...

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