The Exchange

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A covered market hall of cast iron and glass from 1889 at the heart of the Arcades, where every review in Recto has a price before it is fought. Tall slate boards line the walls; at noon the odds go up in chalk and move with the money until the Proctor chalks the circle in the Theatre. The Book is kept at a high desk on a platform in the middle of the floor, and behind it four hundred pigeonholes are stuffed with folded futures: signed promises of citation in papers that have not been written. R...

Located in The Möbius Academy.