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A speculative near-future novel set in Seattle, New Cascadia. Journalist Benjamin Pontchartrain travels to interview Amaryllis, a celebrated audio-visual-conceptual artist, and finds himself caught between the glossy surfaces of technological utopianism and what lies beneath. Structured through competing voices — interviews, citations, epigraphs drawn from Neal Stephenson and Carson McCullers — the novel asks what we miss when we look away at the wrong moment. Named for Stephenson's observation about the collapsed Alexandria lighthouse, it is a meditation on Silicon Valley ambition, the quiet erosion of institutions, and the stories we tell ourselves about the future we are building.