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#13 — Chalk

This time it's a list!

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#12 — Inflatable

Robert Macfarlane reflects on the wistful archetype of childhood adventure: the humble tree house. “The trees become his house; he learns to sleep cupped by their branches and crooked in their boughs. He balances armchairs in their crowns, and he hides in their hollow trunks. He lays an ear to

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#11 — Roland

This week: a horrible sense of panic.

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#10 — Curationism

This week: growing elaborate and careless with the passage of time.

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#9 — Avaunt

This week: a servant to pragmatism.

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#8 — Polling

This week: terrestrial sonar.

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#7 — Umlauts

This week: all the flesh has been removed.

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#6 — Periscope

This week: memories of the space age.

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#5 — Morphology

This week: sooner or later everything turns into television.

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#4 — Fugitive

Vacuum cleaners, chicken bones, vague promises, centripetal privilege and academia nuts.

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#3 — Rocky

This week: boulders, novellas, giant crabs, chisels, backsides.

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#2 — Calvino

Hello – Another week, another digest of reading material from the four corners of the web! First up, Peter Mendelsund's visual essay exploring his own approach to the work of Italo Calvino – fascinating stuff, and a great use of tumblr:  “As the same moment that this design was taking