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Plate II · ix · b · The City

Charlottenlund

Twenty minutes north of a city I have walked all day, and I have never once got on the train. One entry, no visit, and no dressing it up.

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A low concrete and glass gallery pavilion set into Danish parkland at blue hour, bare trees and clipped lawn
Plate II · ix · b · The Garden, Intended

A gallery that keeps a house in its garden is making an argument about how one ought to live, and I have not yet gone to hear it.

A day, properly arranged
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Written as an intention, not a memory. I have not done this day yet.

The entries

One entry, and the mark is hollow.
Still on the list in Charlottenlund
Not yet stood in. Kept here so I cannot quietly forget it.
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Notes for the city

Say the true thing first: this is a page held open by somebody who has not gone. Everything here is planning rather than description, and it will be rewritten the week after I have actually walked the garden.

What I have been told, repeatedly and by people whose eyes I trust, is that it is a whole day and not an afternoon — a modern wing, a collection, and a designer's own house standing in the grounds. Three things that want three separate frames of mind.

May is what I have written down. My excuse for not going has always been that I was already having a good day in Copenhagen, which is the worst reason there is, and this page exists to say so out loud.

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