They have reproached me for reading the police reports of Rome, but I learn from them, all the time, matters for amazement.
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‘A cow was on the wrong side of the fence on Crooked Road on May 26.’
They have reproached me for reading the police reports of Rome, but I learn from them, all the time, matters for amazement.
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‘We meet at various points in the great swathes of the past that neither of us were alive to witness.’
Allen Bratton on a daytrip to a castle with his older boyfriend.
‘Listening to three white poets, whom I suspect are academics, talk about the state of poetry.’
Oluwaseun Olayiwola eavesdrops on an older generation.
‘I’d been dubious about his company at first.’
Sarah Moss on watching Shakespeare with her twelve-year-old son.
‘She didn’t trust us because, to her, tenants were like children.’
Kate Zambreno on negotiating with her older landlady.
‘A moment now swallowed in embarrassment, I asked a question only a young person might ask an older one.’
Lynne Tillman on trying to understand what makes a generation.
Mark Haworth-Booth is an Honorary Research Fellow at the V&A, where he was Senior Curator of Photography from 1977 to 2004.
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