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Trying on Different Voices (opens the original)
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If you had another life, running parallel to the one you already have, how would you spend it?I ask this question regularly because the answers have turned out to be interesting. Quite often, people tell me about opposite lives. In the forest, on the beach, doing nothing, or pursuing the career that never happened. Most people think that if they already have one perfectly decent life, it would be a shame to do the same thing in the other.But if two are not enough, what do you do then?You can alw
I WAS HERE: The Subtle Art of Underlining (opens the original)
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For several years now I have been reading In Search of Lost Time together with an older woman. Or, I think I have. I do not actually know her age, or her gender, but I can still picture her. You see, she is the previous owner of my paperback edition of the series. For long stretches I see no sign of her as I read, but then something happens, sometimes after twenty or so unmarked pages, that makes her draw a faint pencil line in the margin.As when Marcel Proust talks about the moment one wakes fr
Minor Disturbances (opens the original)
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It is only once something has gone wrong that the adventure begins, as they say. And anyone who has ever been on holiday knows that it is true. Where control ends, anecdotes begin.So now, on my first day back at work, I can tell my colleagues about the hooligans wrestling outside my cabin on the ferry to Tallinn (I had forgotten there was a match coming up), tell you more about my unexpectedly comprehensive study of Ralph Erskine’s architecture in Sandviken1 (I took a wrong turn on the way to th
Madeleine Moments (opens the original)
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It is one of the most famous scenes in literature: near the beginning of the first volume of In Search of Lost Time, the narrator tastes a spoonful of tea in which he has allowed a small piece of madeleine to soften and, through the labyrinthine pathways of taste, is eventually carried back to his childhood. The scene is famous partly because it belongs to a monumental work, but also because the reader can so readily recognise the wonder of having an entire universe within oneself, ready to unfo
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