https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffstreeter/p/locomotion-a-life-in-train-journeys?r=1h6yf6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffstreeter/p/at-the-palace-museum?r=1h6yf6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Join me for a visit to the museum that commemorates one of Japan's greatest novelists: https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffstreeter/p/elective-affinities?r=1h6yf6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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How not to introduce a celebrity speaker...
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Vanished Splendour
Have you ever read The Dream of the Red Chamber/红楼梦?
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I went to this exhibition out of idle curiosity. But it soon became a journey of discovery.
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In the 1930s, a group of poets briefly became known as the pylon poets because of their love for the new infrastructure of an electricity-fuelled society. Before I read their work, I was already fascinated by electricity pylons, "stretching and tensing their way across a landscape."
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When recording the past becomes a drama.
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Adrift on the Nile
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https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffstreeter/p/getting-paid?r=1h6yf6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
England has a tradition of reverence for amateurs. But Samuel Johnson called unpaid writers "blockheads." And sometimes, there's no choice. This week's post is about getting paid on Substack.
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Under the Linden Tree
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Join me at the hairdresser's
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Have you ever been enchanted by a book?
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Join me at Tate Britain for this stunning exhibition
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https://open.substack.com/pub/jeffstreeter/p/dissolution?r=1h6yf6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
"All which die
To their first elements resolve."
John Donne
Join me on a visit to Furness Abbey
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On Tanabata and the many returns we make
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https://jeffstreeter.substack.com/p/rainy-season
Finally, I get to talk about the weather.
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Some thoughts on not quite belonging.
https://jeffstreeter.substack.com/p/exile-and-the-kingdom
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