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A snippet of fiction inspired by Shakespeare and Company & how my Danish teacher pronounces Zoom "soom"

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May 24, 2024
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New Babylon, Constant Nieuwhenhuys, 1963

Started working on this at Easter. Scrapped it, then thought to share the draft on here. Motivated by my friend’s new novel. The launch was last night. It was grand.

It was Carl who first spotted him. Lonely on the ramparts, shrouded in vapours. Carl had only been at Kronburg for a brief while, and he felt truly bl…

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