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Ghost Stories for the Very Adult
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How a brilliant art historian amassed one of the strangest libraries in the world in between trips to the Wild West and the sanitarium.
The Brain and the Tomb
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Reading the nearly unreadable, instantly baffling, and endlessly complicated Archimedes Palimpsest.
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“I don’t believe, in the end, that there is any such thing as no style.”
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