![]() ![]() ![]() But one day when they run out of accounts to read, he asks on impulse for a different kind of story.Įlishama is also a man cut off from human relationships, though unlike Mr. After he falls sick, he has a clerk, Elishama, stay up all night reading old account books to him. He knows only figures, facts and transactional relationships money is the defining element and purpose of his existence. Clay, a miserly English nabob in Canton, who lives in a house full of mirrors that once belonged to his business partner whom he bankrupted (and who then committed suicide). Who are the characters set in motion in The Immortal Story? Reading this story was like lying in the surf having waves pour over me I knew I should get up and breathe from time to time, but I wanted to stay where I was until the tide receded. Where I read it: Anecdotes of Destiny and Ehrengard ![]()
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