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"At twenty past twelve on a Wednesday afternoon, a woman sat behind a desk in a shared office in Dublin city center, scrolling through a text document. She had very dark hair, swept back loosely into a tortoiseshell clasp, and she was wearing a dark-gray sweater tucked into black cigarette trousers. Using the soft, greasy roller on her computer mouse she skimmed over the document, eyes flicking back and forth across narrow columns of text, and occasionally she stopped, clicked, and inserted or deleted characters. Most frequently she was inserting two full stops into the name 'WH Auden,' in order to standardize its appearance as 'W. H. Auden.' When she reached the end of the document, she opened a search command, selected the Match Case option, and entered 'WH.' No matches appeared. She scrolled back up to the top of the document, words and paragraphs flying past...
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This section contains 1,115 words (approx. 3 pages at 400 words per page) |