Miniature

This year’s winner of the
Nobel Prize in Literature
has written a novel that
  “uses the art of
miniature illumination,
much as Mann’s
Doctor Faustus
did music, to explore
a nation’s soul”
(John Updike in
The New Yorker).

For the explorer,
here is a
miniature story:

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This story was published on
September 29, 2006,
the Feast of St. Michael
and All Angels.

For illumination of the story,
see Log24, Sept. 30, 2006.

The author is unknown.