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The objects that travel with us
A broken-spined novel, a knife worn pale at the handle, a scarf that smells of somewhere else. On the small, unnecessary things we pack, and what they carry for us.
By Mara Ellison7 min read
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Books, music, making and the places where culture happens.
Culture at The Margin means the small venues and private rituals as much as the big works — the record shop that refuses to hurry, the library after closing, the printer still setting type by hand.
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