The Distant Metropolis

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The ink in the well was thick and cold, smelling of iron and old rain, as I pressed the nib to the page of my ledger, a book of rough brown paper that I had bound myself with twine because I could not afford a proper cover. It is the fourteenth of November, 1904, and I am thirty-two years old, a junior clerk in the Vane & Halloway Textile Mill in Leeds, a fact that has begun to feel less like a...

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