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Field Journal of Jonathan Orms, 1893 "On the way to polite exile in the Galapagos Islands (field work, to estimate the dean of my school), I have found myself marooned on the deserted tropical paradise. Deserted, that is, except for my savior, a inexplicable North american called Marcus. He is an inventor and the proof of his greatness is the marvelous new clockwork arm he has generated to replace the unsightly the one that was ruined in my own shipboard mishap. "Marcus has a really brilliant brain and the gentlest hands, which cause me to quiver in an unfamiliar but instead enjoyable way. Surely it is only my craving for human being companionship that pulls me to this man, little or nothing more? He says a dispatch will complete this way in a few months, but I am pleasant to stay so long as I like. The idea of going out of Marcus becomes more untenable with each transferring day, though being would be fatal to my profession....