05/03/2026 19:13

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Before my tenth birthday I had handled some half-dozen copies of the printing world’s masterpiece, the Gutenberg Bible. I do not wish to see a man of your convictions perish, but the men you represent, who own the objects you intend to save, are moved only by greed and vanity. Fewer copies of it survive today than do copies of the Gutenberg Bible. Maybe he guessed I’d be back.

Standing at the center of it all, in a perimeter of space everyone else has evacuated, is Parker Hassett, flushed and fuming. “What do you think?” she says. ” His hands are shaking, the diary still tucked between them. The experience daunted Paul at first.