Said codex had been saved from destruction by an orphan girl who managed to escape unseen during the fall of Constantinople.This amateur classicist, as a solitary exercise in his years of retirement, made his own translation of a recently rediscovered Greek codex.Her research leads her to the writings of an amateur classicist who was at the right place to stop a mass shooting by an ecoterrorist at a small town library. In a locked vault in a generation spaceship, not so many years from now, a girl hunts down scanned documents and news videos to try and figure out why her father signed up for a lifelong mission away from Earth.Imagine the most splendid city you can imagine, where people tell legends of the most splendid city you can imagine. Imagine a creation so vast that its intertextual references point at itself. Imagine a timeless masterpiece about the discovery of a timeless masterpiece. Imagine an obsessed reader researching an obsessed reader. Imagine an infinite library containing gateways to every library. Imagine a cryptic riddle about a hero deciphering a cryptic riddle. Imagine a story about the saving power of stories.
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