"The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" Part 1 by Ted Chiang
LeVar Burton Reads
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The Importance of Astrophysics
"I was prosperous, but my heart was troubled. Neither the purchase of luxuries nor the giving of alms was able to sue it." "Now I stand before you without a single deeron in my purse, but I am at peace," he says. 'Allah is the beginning of all things' The story begins with Basrat's visit to Metal Smiths and ends with his death.
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