It’s been weeks since I’ve seen the place. Guarded by a soldierwith a gun. ” Floorboards creak above us, movement in another world. My father, and Richard Curry, and McBee.
Inside it, where some of the youngest books are centuries old, the scale of age becomes relative. Philosophers who are combining religious points from the Bible with ideas from Greek and Roman texts, Egyptian mysticism, Persian manuscripts so old nobody knows how to date them. Charlie unloads a pair of pin-striped gray laser guns, then the set of Velcro straps with dark plastic domes in the middle. That’s the kind of world it is, where people suspect the pope of murder.
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