The Pale Tale

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The Pale Tale

The Alfama district did not sleep; it merely changed the pitch of its breathing, a low, rhythmic hum of pipes and distant traffic that seemed to vibrate in the teeth of anyone who lived above the waterline. I was thirty years old, a clerk at the Sousa & Figueira Textile Mill, and I had spent the last six months chasing a ghost made of silver. It was a specific, maddening pursuit: the recovery...

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