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Each essay here follows a thread between things that shouldn’t connect, e.g. a guitar tone and a Florentine ceiling, a comic panel and a liturgical manuscript, a mathematical surface and the feeling of walking through a train station at dusk. If that kind of thinking appeals to you, you’ll find something here.

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Essays on what connects John Frusciante to Dante, Hermès to Schuiten, and the ghost of parchment haunting every .docx.

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