The Faded Quadrant

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Francesco Sartori bent over the mill floor, the looms stopped around him like the ribs of a dead whale, and pressed his left thumb into the wet clay of the map’s edge to steady the vellum. The dry cold of the Po valley flatlands preserved everything, from the mud at low tide to the debt of the currency reform that had wiped his savings clean, leaving only the weight of the unfinished quadrant...

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