The Golden Myth

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The Golden Myth

Act I I remember the sound the river made before it quit, a low, continuous hum that vibrated in the floorboards of the brokerage wire room, until the silence settled in like a snowmelt into the coal cellars, cold and absolute. I was thirty-four then, a junior archivist in a department that smelled of dust and old coffee, and I wanted the brass compass from M. Delacroix’s estate more than I...

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