The Wistful Incense

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The letter from the Dean lay on the desk, the paper yellowed by the damp air of the archive, its ink smudged where my hand had trembled. It was a polite refusal, wrapped in the bureaucratic cotton wool of institutional pity, informing me that the special grant for the *Vale Dialect* project would not be renewed until the final volume was submitted. I read it twice, the words swimming as the Hum...

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