Further Reading

A black-breasted red Onagadori rooster with long golden-orange hackles and a very long black tail coiling across the parquet floor, seated upright on a wooden chair at an oak library table in a bottle-green velvet jacket and white shirt, an old book open before him beside a brass lamp with a green glass shade, shelves of leather-bound books in the dim reading room behind

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Tuesday is the late opening, and the long table under the green lamps is nearly his alone. The book is one he first borrowed at nine. He has reached the part he likes and is taking it a page at a time.

8 September 2026