Papillon is at 67,500 words - right at quota! It’s been so long since I could say that. On Friday, I’ll break 70,00. That Herodotus quote really did the trick.

I’m reading “The Great Mortality”, by John Kelly, about the Black Death epidemic of the 14th century. It’s incredible. The devastation wreaked by the plague is hard to imagine; twenty-five million dead in Europe alone, and another fifty million in China. I don’t really have any way to describe it.

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