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What made the old barber shop different from anywhere else was that nobody had an appointment, so everybody waited together, and the waiting was most of the experience. Here…
The useful question about any unusual shoe is what it was standing on. Almost every answer is a property of the ground rather than a preference of the wearer. Here…
The useful thing to look at in any harbour is the wall - which direction it faces, how high it stands and where the entrance is - because that tells…
Bitterness is the only taste that is universally rejected at first and widely sought out later, which makes it the most interesting of the five and the hardest to use…
Look at any vernacular building and the roof tells you the weather before anybody mentions it. Here are eleven of the things a roof is arguing with.
1. The Steep…
Sand seems like the least plausible thing to run short of. It is the archetype of abundance — the thing in the metaphor about counting grains, covering deserts and beaches…