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Plate V · iv · a · The City

Lima

A single entry, unvisited. This page is a plan rather than a memory, and I would rather it read as one.

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Lima rooftops and balconies under flat grey coastal light, sea fog beyond
Plate V · iv · a · The coastal grey

A city I have read about at length and never once walked in. The mark stays hollow until I have.

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

The entries

One kept, none yet visited.
Rows of ancient ceramic vessels on open shelves in a dim museum storeroom
Open storage · the argument, not the memory

Most collections hide ninety per cent of themselves and call the remainder a museum. Here, by every account, they simply opened the shelves. I want to see whether it works.

NOT YET SEEN
Still on the list in Lima
All of it, in fact. Kept here so I cannot quietly forget it.
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Notes for Lima

I am writing this page from the wrong side of the ocean, so take it as a plan and nothing better. One entry stands against Lima, and against my name it is hollow. That is the whole of the honest position.

August is the season noted in the index — the coastal winter, grey and flat, which is exactly the weather for a day spent indoors among pots. If I go, I will go then, and I will give the storerooms an unhurried afternoon rather than an hour before dinner.

When it is done properly, this page will be rewritten in the past tense and the mark will be filled. Until then it stays as it is, and I will not decorate the gap with borrowed impressions.

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