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It occurred to him that Gilgamesh's fishing-rod, too, was missing.
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Alone amidst the masses of humanity at the great station of Charing Cross, his ears full of the short, sharp whistle-blows from the platforms and their accompanying clacking of wheels as trains accelerated away into the dark, and his stomach (despite all that he had found) rumbling quietly at the pervading smells of pastries baking and coffee brewing, he began reading Gilgamesh's letter to him:
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He finished, and all was quiet save for Gilgamesh's chuckle.
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Gilgamesh's jagged handwriting ran along the page in cramped and hurried lines that left no blank space.
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There was the small ring of stones where Gilgamesh's fire had burned.
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Gilgamesh's brown fingers broke a piece of the bread and shoved it into his mouth, and he followed it by taking a swig of wine from the open bottle.
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Resting against the wall he found Gilgamesh's blanket.
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He wiped them away, and a drop fell onto the page, near Gilgamesh's signature, and he noticed something he had missed.
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When he learns of Gilgamesh's injustices, he goes to fight him.
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It strings together a number of originally independent tales, linking them with recurring themes and transforming them into a tale of Gilgamesh's personal quest to defeat death.
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