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The cover art depicts a long corridor with a high ceiling decorated with intricate gold and blue designs. Down the corridor, a pangolin approaches a blue cat flap in one of the doors.

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I enter the cor­ri­dor, and imme­di­ately an oppres­sive awe set­tles upon me. Here, through this very hall­way of cre­ativ­ity, giants once strode. Geniuses. Intel­lec­tual titans, Goliaths, and gods of the lit­er­ary fir­ma­ment. They all knew this place, came here, and availed them­selves of what lay beyond these doors. Grandiose works were born of these inspi­ra­tions.

I feel small and insignif­i­cant. Never would I dare to open one of these mighty por­tals. But there, in one of the doors, I dis­cover a tiny cat flap at the bot­tom. Dare I gather a minus­cule morsel of inspi­ra­tion here? Cau­tiously, I lift the flap…