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Plate IV · ii · a · The City

Dublin

One entry, north of the river, and a page written entirely in the future tense because I have not been.

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A Georgian terrace at dusk, fanlights above painted doors and wet granite pavement under bare branches
Plate IV · ii · a · North of the Liffey

A city I have read about at length and walked in not at all, which is no sort of qualification.

A day, properly arranged
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Written as a plan. Nothing above has happened yet.

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One entry, and it is still hollow.
Still on the list in Dublin
Everything here, in fact. Kept so I cannot quietly forget it.
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Notes for Dublin

This page carries one entry and no experience behind it. I have not walked this city, so I will not tell you which way the light falls or how long the rooms take — that is the sort of thing one invents, and the directory does not.

What I do know is why it is kept: a working studio lifted out of London and rebuilt here, dust and all, catalogued rather than tidied. Anyone who has read a museum's conservation notes will understand why that sits at the top of a list.

The plan, when I make it, is winter, midweek, at opening, with the rest of the afternoon left deliberately empty. Until then this is an intention with a plate number, and it is marked hollow for a reason.

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