Chapter 36

“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist. For many are the obstacles that impede knowledge,

both the obscurity of the question and the shortness of human life.”

-Protagoras

Nathaniel was standing in the middle of a street walled by two cold rows of rustic houses and lit by a line of slender green light posts. The houses all had wooden front doors and glass front windows, with little to distinguish one house from the next. Here, a potted plant sat by the front door. There, a marble statue stood before the front window. At the next house the petrified head of a deer was hung beneath the portico. Apart from these differences, however, the houses...

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