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Josiah bancroft senlin ascends6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Their train shared a direction with a host of caravans, each a slithering line of wheels, hooves and feet. ![]() The ground was the color of rusted chains, and the dust of it clung to everything. They descended through shale foothills, which he said reminded him of a field of shattered blackboards, through cypress trees, which she said looked like open parasols, and finally they came upon the arid basin. Already, they were further from home than they had ever been. First, they had crossed pastureland, spotted with fattening cattle and charmless hamlets, and then their train had climbed through a range of snow-veined mountains where condors roosted in nests large as haystacks. It was a four-day journey by train from the coast to the desert where the Tower of Babel rose like a tusk from the jaw of the Earth. Everyman’s Guide to the Tower of Babel, I. Whimsy, adventure, and romance are the Tower’s real trade. The Tower of Babel is most famous for the silk fineries and marvelous airships it produces, but visitors will discover other intangible exports. ![]()
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