The Golden Downtown
The candle has burned down to a stub of wax, no longer than my little finger, and the shadow it casts on the wall is long and thin as a needle. I am counting the hours, not by the clock, which has stopped at three in the afternoon, but by the angle of the light falling across the desk, a geometry of silence that I have memorized over twenty years of service in this archive. The ledger lies open...
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