Are you testing me? Because that's in chapter three of the first vo Oh Oh, you are clever.
Thank you. Didn't your great-uncle write it?[His handwriting becomes cramped as he writes with haste in his enthusiasm.] Yes. In chapter three, the author vividly recreates the two conversations (perhaps from family lore?) that happened behind closed doors between the mayor, the deputy director of health, and private investors -- including your great-great grandfather -- even as the deputy director was succumbing to the disease, in order to muster the manpower to build the first pharmaceutical manufacturing plant outside the city to produce enough of the cure to begin treating substantial numbers of victims. But the railroads were a critical component of the distribution the cure outside the capital -- but that's in Chapter 4. And that tells us why, up until the modernization of the rail lines two decades ago, the rail traffic and schedules still flowed east from Belailles using one standardized track size, but western lines, established almost a century after the crisis, used
plague I must break this habit of boring women
[His handwriting returns to its careful, orderly script.]
All of this is to say, you're right: there's nothing like having one's own book in one's hands. I appreciate your efforts, and I'm looking forward to seeing you. I'll see you around teatime.