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'In the hiatus that was COVID lockdown, the novelty of “staying put” had a peculiar grace and delight. To limit one’s trajectory to five kilometres meant homing in on the small and the local: the seasonal repetitions of a plant blossoming in a neighbour’s garden, new pale green leaves on trees, a smell of liquorice in the air heralding summer. I looked closer at the local and saw new things, or perhaps I saw old things with new eyes.'
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Friday Essay : A Reinvention of Self – the Pleasure of Literary Journeys
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- Literary Journeys : Mapping Fictional Travels Across the World of Literature 2024 anthology criticism
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