CodaA programming note: there ends (more or less) the odd tale of Marco, and one of the strange seasons in which he lived. His story now has a place on the project page.
The only other thing I really want to say about it is to apologize for the unrelenting italics; I did that for the purposes of setting the material apart from the rest, and also in an effort of breaking myself of the habit of using typographical emphasis to set off words that I could better make stand out through grammar tortured use of. It was a worthy exercise.
I had fun with it. I hope you liked it. (Thanks.)

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