In the greatest city of Roman Asia, forty years apart, two men hold the same small flame: one who paid everything he owned to light it, and one who has guarded it flawlessly for thirty years and never noticed it go out.
Ephesus is the greatest city in Asia: the crowded harbour slowly closing with silt, the great temple on the hill, the craftsmen's quarter loud with every trade that serves a pilgrim city. The Ephesus diptych stands at both ends of one thread — a copyist of sacred names who has to decide what his whole living is actually worth, and, forty years later, an overseer who is right about everything and has quietly gone cold.
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