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  • « Ça ira! There will be fire and enthusiasm in you »

    « Ça ira! There will be fire and enthusiasm in you »This article is available for Members only. Check out our subscription plans to become a member.

    In search of Anthon van Rappard, Vincent van Gogh’s forgotten friend.

  • Forget your darlings

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    On memory palaces, medieval and modern. A medieval woman’s life would not have taken the form of a straight line.

  • A Silence Shared

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    « If a story just like that one — dying babies, divine retribution — had come back to me from childhood memories, it would have seemed fantastical, unreal. »

  • Kill your darlings

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    Like plots in a garden cemetery, with lamentations, good-riddances or other epitaphs.

  • A recipe for word vomit

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    On pregnant silences, and how to abort them — via Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship and our own manners & morals.