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Most ancient monuments survive because they are made of something durable. Stone lasts. Metal lasts. Fired clay lasts. Their survival requires nothing from anybody.
There is a category of…
The pattern across all of these is the same trade: more character, less predictability. What follows is what each category is actually like rather than how it photographs. Here are…
Almost everybody has experienced this, and almost nobody has considered how strange it is.
Sitting still in a vehicle, entirely uninjured, having eaten nothing unusual, a person becomes progressively unwell…
Every pass is a compromise between height and distance: the lowest crossing point is rarely the shortest route, and the route that everyone took is whichever combination was survivable. Here…
The aim is not to be adventurous for its own sake. It is to end up with the thing the place is good at, which is usually not the thing…
The useful habit when standing in an unfamiliar square is to look at what faces onto it, because the buildings around the edge record who wanted the space and what…