The Wistful Silence

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Act I The ledger of the Jiangnan Water Town, Year of the Horse, Entry 42: Jian Wang, Alchemist to the Hall, owing three bushels of rice and one fish-spear of split bone for the tithe of the chariot maker’s yard.‌⁠⁠‌‌‌‌‍‍‌‌⁠‌‍⁠‌‌‍⁠‍‍‍‍‍‍⁠‌‍‍‍‍⁠‌‌⁠‍⁠⁠‍‍‍‌ The ink had not yet dried when I woke, the smell of wet paper and the damp rot of the canal seeping into the...

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