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Stackable
Rectangular block of dressed limestone, all six faces squared with a chisel and dusted pale from the finishing pass, corners sharp enough to mark a pencil drawn across them. Heavy in a way that forearms learn before they argue about it.
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Chronicle
Quarried out of the shelf above the river road by crews who rotate between wet-blasting and dry-cutting depending on the week's rainfall. The blocks move downriver on barges under a schedule the quarrymaster publishes nowhere, because the upstream yards would buy out the summer's output in a morning if the schedule leaked. Masons grade the stock by ring, and the old masters can tell which bed a block came from by the way the chisel answers.