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"Mark Licinius Sept was found by the door of his dimly lit tablinum: he lay dead among unfurled scrolls.

The dates were delicious. Mark Licinius Sept was buried as is, without the obol: an oversight.

“I say,” replied Zez dully, “that instead of inventing endings one had better rethink the beginning: I would construct it very differently."

Three colons from Chapter Six.

The Letter Killers Club by Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky. Translation by Joanne Turnbull and Nikolai Formozov. Published by NYRB Classics. Available here.

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