{"id":1329,"date":"2026-01-03T21:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-ghost-pit-baxter-stephen\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:25:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:25:18","slug":"the-ghost-pit-baxter-stephen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/the-ghost-pit-baxter-stephen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ghost Pit – Baxter, Stephen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MANFRED\u2019S ON THE ROAD AGAIN, MAKING STRANGERS RICH. <\/b><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a hot summer Tuesday and he\u2019s standing in the plaza in front of the Centraal Station with his eyeballs powered up and the sunlight jangling off the canal, motor scooters and kamikaze cyclists whizzing past and tourists chattering on every side. The square smells of water and dirt and hot metal and the fart-laden exhaust fumes of cold catalytic converters; the bells of trams ding in the background and birds flock overhead. <\/p>\n

He glances up and grabs a pigeon, crops it and squirts at his website to show he\u2019s arrived. <\/p>\n

The bandwidth is good here, he realizes; and it\u2019s not just the bandwidth, it\u2019s the whole scene. Amsterdam is making him feel wanted already, even though he\u2019s fresh off the train from Schiphol: he\u2019s infected with the dynamic optimism of another time zone, another city. If the mood holds, someone out there is going to become very rich indeed. <\/p>\n

He wonders who it\u2019s going to be. <\/p>\n

Manfred sits on a stool out in the car park at the Brouwerij \u2019t IJ, watching the articulated buses go by and drinking a third of a liter of lip-curlingly sour geuze. His channels are jabbering away in a corner of his head-up display, throwing compressed infobursts of filtered press releases at him. They compete for his attention, bickering and rudely waving in front of the scenery. A couple of punks\u2013maybe local, but more likely drifters lured to Amsterdam by the magnetic field of tolerance the Dutch beam across Europe like a pulsar\u2013are laughing and chatting by a couple of battered mopeds in the far corner. A tourist boat putters by in the canal; the sails of the huge windmill overhead cast long cool shadows across the road. The windmill is a machine for lifting water, turning wind power into dry land: trading energy for space, sixteenth-century style. Manfred is waiting for an invite to a party where he\u2019s going to meet a man who he can talk to about trading energy for space, twenty-first century style, and forget about his personal problems. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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