The Pale Altar

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The Pale Altar

Act I Why does a man bleed for a flower? You ask this because you are Yaw Oyelaran, and you are standing in the back room of the copper court, the air heavy with wet earth and old iron. It is the Copper Age, a time before bronze, in a West African river town that is slowly eroding into the water like a spit of land surrendering to the tide. You are a clerk, thirty years old, and you are poor....

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