The Distant Joke

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The Distant Joke

The train smelled of wet wool and diesel. Elias Thorne sat in the corner, his left knee a dull, grinding throb against the window. He was fifty-two, a retired linguist who had spent three decades mapping the dead tongues of Europe, but the only language he could no longer speak was the one required to survive. His pension was two months from running dry. The house in Harrow, the estate his wife...

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