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From the conceptual to the mechanical and back again. Merciless chrome and black, mercifully free of cabling, of Wi-Fi range, of needy battery icons.
It is writing with sound and fury, each key an inked thwack on a page stretched taut by paper fingers, writing with echoes of thunderous roars of keystrokes within typing pools, of industry caught halfway between manual and digital.
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Beginnings in the crags, where the mist skeins slide over rubbled morain, where the clouds purple and brood. The water is nowhere and everywhere, tinkling and spidered under the stones, the little rivulets caught between plains of sky and scree.
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Sit down. Let me hang your coat up. Pull up a chair by the log burner. Take a load off. Nothing to do but stare at the flames, listen to the harbour bell tolling on the swell, and imagine the sea har pressing against the rattling windowpanes.
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Politicians, particularly those approaching the end of their time in power, tend to focus on legacy. The Monroe Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, and the Third Way are all examples of attempts to leave behind something tangible. They are the fenceposts to which administrations and existences can be tethered, held fast by a conviction that time and lives were spent in the service of something greater than themselves.
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Matthew Richardson 