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A Gentle Rain: Beyond the Breath — Prologue and Chapter One

This is the second book of a pair. In Bread of Wisdom , a guest from outside time visits thirteen people who spent their lives asking one question. The last of them was an old man who had called everything under the sun a breath — and who received bread from the guest's hands, and then found him gone. This is his account of what happened next. He set out to find the guest again, and on that road he met thirteen more people: men and women who changed the world and were forgotten by it. I will post these meetings here, one at a time, as I translate them. Prologue No one knows my name. Many suppose I was a king. It is only a guess. I see no reason to tell them otherwise. My life was a breath, and a breath is not worth counting. I was only a man who gathered scattered things into one place. I had everything a man can have. A great house. Gardens. Silver. And wisdom no one could match. At the end I learned what all of it was: a handful of breath that vanishes the moment you cl...
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Bread of Wisdom

A guest from outside time visits thirteen people who spent their lives asking one question. Sinsaimdang, who painted grasshoppers no one would ever see. Laozi, who spent his life pointing at what he could never hold. Socrates, who knew what was right and still could not do it. Job, who cried out from the ashes and heard nothing. Each of them met a stranger. None of them learned his name. The fourteenth evening is yours. ENGLISH Kindle — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H64WXBN3 Paperback — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H66CYK7M 日本語 Kindle — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6616ZSR ペーパーバック — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H666L9NC ESPAÑOL Kindle — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H66871JD Edición de bolsillo — https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H661KYH7