The Golden Compass

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The quill was wet, the ink black and thick as tar, and Brother Thomas’s hand shook as he scraped the vellum. It was not the cold of the scriptorium, damp with the smell of oakum and wet stone, that made his fingers tremble. It was the text beneath the psalm. He had been a scribe for twenty years, his back bent over the desk until his spine was a question mark, his eyes ruined by the...

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