For thirty-three years, Lamb sat on a high stool, identical to those occupied by thirty other clerks; dipped his goose quill into two inkwells, one containing black ink and the other red (he called the latter Clerk’s Blood); and recorded the price of tea, indigo, and piece goods. Not only did he hate his work; [...]
September 8, 2008
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