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===== Blurb =====
SOMEONE COMES TO TOWN, SOMEONE LEAVES TOWN is a glorious book, but thereare hundreds of those. It is more. It is a glorious book unlike anybook you've ever read.
- Gene Wolfe
========== Dedication ==========
========= The novel =========
Alan sanded the house on Wales Avenue. It took six months, and the wholetime it was the smell of the sawdust, ancient and sweet, and the reek ofchemical stripper and the damp smell of rusting steel wool.
Alan took possession of the house on January 1, and paid for it in fullby means of an e-gold transfer. He had to do a fair bit of hand-holdingwith the realtor to get her set up and running on e-gold, but he lovedto do that sort of thing, loved to sit at the elbow of a novitiate andguide her through the clicks and taps and forms. He loved to break offfor impromptu lectures on the underlying principles of the transaction,and so he treated the poor realtor lady to a dozen addresses on thenature of international currency markets, the value of precious metal asa kind of financial lingua franca to which any currency could beconverted, the poetry of vault shelves in a hundred banks around theworld piled with the heaviest of metals,