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Two experiences of the scholarly life

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Alexander Riley
Feb 18, 2022
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In a foreign country, where the language is not my own, I am working in an old building undergoing renovation, metal shelving and exposed wiring all around me. 

The room in which I sit is the reading room of an archive, and I am going through scads of correspondence and notes left by various writers from a hundred years ago to try to find useful things …

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