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The Circular Ruins (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)

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In “The Circular Ruins,” from a nameless home in a time not marked on calendars, a figure known only as “the taciturn man” or “the gray man” beaches a bamboo canoe on the bank of a jungle river. When he lands, he kisses the mud and heads inland to the circular ruins: the ruins of an abandoned temple to a god no longer worshiped. He sleeps there in the ruins, and when he awakes, he will begin a task of creation.

He awakes in the morning and sees tracks around him, which inform him that the local residents of the area have observed him during the...

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