Prospero's Dream

By Jacob Magnus

An ancient exile must confront his greatest pain, and discover if he has the strength to live without deceiving his only love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jacob Magnus
• Release date: Oct 10, 2019
• ISBN: 9781370767083

Jacob Magnus

When he isn't touring the world on a majestic airship, Jacob Magnus lives with his wife in the mountainous beauty of Korea.

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Prospero's Dream

By Jacob Magnus

Copyright 2019 Jacob Magnus

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I snipped off the tape, slid the book out of the brown paper wrappings the last owner had swaddled it in, and gently drew apart the dry black leather covers. The smells of dust, mildew, and the faint metallic tang of the mediaeval pigments wove together with the weight and texture of the book to give me a sense of vertigo, as if I stood on a precipice above a chasm into history. Perhaps it was the feeling of it, the centennial strength of it, to resist those long ages while every reader went down into dust, as its writer had gone down, proud, wise and weak, Augustine, praising, wishing for his City of God. But where lay that strength, in the vellum and inks, or in the very words? Some monk or scribe had copied a copy of a copy, to make even this, the first folio edition, given them new form, new skin, if not flesh, and if words and a book may live again, may not a man, or better than a man?

The doorbell rang, and I remembered where I was, a man of the twentieth, no, the twenty first century, a man in a shop, a seller of ancient