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literature, archives, material texts, culture, with varying degrees of first personness
Dec 13, 2020
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What I did at 5.35pm every day from 5 January 2025 to 5 January 2026
Sunday 5 January Setting up google spreadsheet for recording what I’m doing at 5.35pm.
Jan 8
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Bothsidesism
Helping to clear out a room in my mother-in-law’s house, I come across an example of one of my favourite kinds of text: the page of writing with, on its…
Dec 31, 2025
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Adam Smyth
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Book Lives
I’ve been looking at two books that, in their handwritten additions, remember people who died in 2025.
Dec 21, 2025
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Adam Smyth
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Pictures of Readers
What do we see in Albert Bartholomé’s pastel and charcoal ‘The Artist’s Wife Reading’ (1883)?
Dec 12, 2025
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Adam Smyth
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Confessions (2025)
In September 2025, I invited friends and family members to record themselves reading a 20-second passage from Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions…
Dec 2, 2025
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Adam Smyth
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The diaries of H____.
In 2016, I purchased from eBay for £45 9 volumes of diaries owned by a clinical psychologist practising privately in Berkeley, California.
Nov 28, 2025
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Adam Smyth
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Preserving unimportant papers
The problem of what to do with stuff.
Nov 22, 2025
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Adam Smyth
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