The Memory Palace
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The Memory Palace
Samuel finley briece morse spent the first 35 years of his life learning to paint at andover at yale in london, at the royal academy. He studied the works of the masters to learn how michael angelo built bodies that seemed to pulse and shudder out of mere oil and o and cross ach. Do any day one night, a courier delivered a message: The city of new york wanted to pay morse a thousand dollars to paint a portrait of the marquis de lafayette. So he packed his sel and his brushes and his paints and clothes that were good enough to wear when meeting a man like lafayette,. And he kissed
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