Stepping into a new museum off a sunny street, the narrator pays his half dollar to a doorkeeper of singular appearance and is shown a collection of wonders from legend and literature: the club of Hercules, the chisel of Phidias, Claude’s palette, a vase of oracular gas from Delphi. The virtuoso’s own identity is the last marvel.
A playful, learned fantasy from Mosses from an Old Manse. Download the free EPUB.