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FOR BLOCKED AFFECTIONS by Sarah Johnson
A cold flux of the humors can produce heaviness in the tissue, which leads to a blocked affection. The resulting fluids pool in the feet, causing sluggishness. The effect of spirits and devils on this disorder cannot be overlooked. Their natures are various, and their motives obscure. I had a spirit who gave me good…
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MR. BOSWELL PEELS AN ORANGE by Sarah Johnson
My wife’s marmalade is the best I’ve had. She peels and crushes the oranges herself, and for days the house smells of oranges’ beaten golden pulp. Under her persistent hands, the fruit submits. It becomes a vivid concentrate, textured with rind. Stored in jars, it will keep for months.
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THE PRINTER by Jenny Doughty
All day he labours, polishing the plate (small, nondescript, whose eyes illuminate his workman’s face), picks up the burin, starts to etch out in reverse all but the heart of what he sees, carves worlds in words, carves tigers, devils, chimney-sweeps and birds.
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