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‘So if a fire tore through Babel, we could lose a full year of research?’ asked Ramy.

‘A year? Try decades. But that’ll never happen.’

foreshadowing is a dramatic device in which —

‘For a country that profited so well from trading in spices, its citizens were violently averse to actually using them; in all his time in Hampstead, he never tasted a dish that could be properly described as ‘seasoned’, let alone ‘spicy’.’

*sigh* RF Kuang is many things, but unfortunately she is and will always be an American first and foremost 🙄