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But by then Paul had found another riddle, and we’d both started to wonder what secret lay in Colonna’s crypt. You can walk through the gate into campus as often as you like, the legend goes, but if you walk out of it just once, you will never graduate. After a while, Gil’s focus seems to cloud over a little. Slowly he extends a hand toward the book.

It isn’t like returning to the home you grew up in and noticing how it left its shape on you, how the walls you There are bookshelves on either side, branching off into aisles of their own, dead ends begetting dead ends. Paul dials in his docent’s password and waits to see if it works. Producing a pitch pipe from his toga, he blows a single note.