<i>Stemwinder</i> WIP
Her favorite perhaps was Segredos Verdadeiros e Exatos, a Portuguese translation of a book which claimed to have originally been published in French, written by a Comte de Saint-Germain. It was a magnificent volume, bound in a slick, smooth leather that she was fairly certain was human skin, the title stamped into the binding with traces of gold leaf and some faded red pigment. There were lurid woodcuts within, lavishly illustrating scenes of debauchery from the ancient days. She’d spent time studying those, for purely informational purposes, but had not yet divined the meaning of many of them. In any case, Paolina found it difficult to credit what Saint-Germain said of himself and the world. The man, whoever he had truly been, was an extraordinary storyteller. She hoped to meet a Jew one day so that she pursue some of the questions raised in Segredos.
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