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I’m so glad. I think lifestyle is too often a focus. When in many cases what we want are different systems.

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This was so interesting, I knew nothing about Wallace, although I've visited the collection in the past. All those Parisian water fountains! Who knew!

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Thank you for posting this article. I learned a great deal.

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Muesli twice a day? Probably got out of there just in time...

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Feb 26Liked by Alexander Chee

I'm writing about our travels to London & elsewhere after we sold our home. These lines of yours about potentially living as an expat served as a terrific prompt: "How much of you was formed by a place? How much of your personality was about proving yourself or surviving in relationship to this or that system that might not exist at all somewhere else? What would be released if you just went somewhere else?" Thank you.

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Oh, this painting. This writing. Thank you!

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Feb 26Liked by Alexander Chee

Loved this one, love Perdita, and now desperately want a Jean Rhys despite it being 9 am.

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"How much of your personality was about proving yourself or surviving in relationship to this or that system that might not exist at all somewhere else?" <-- Now I'm going to be thinking about this, for me.

And *this* for you --> "Her expression to his mind is that of someone who has had her revenge on whoever it is she sees below, but he is almost certainly projecting." Because this is a whole vibe already, and it is drawing me in.

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Feb 26Liked by Alexander Chee

Trumps mouth. Hilariously accurate and slipped into this story just so.

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Feb 26Liked by Alexander Chee

Good story

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Thanks!

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I have enjoyed these letters so much! Will you now write letters from home? I hope so. Also, can we have too many novels about courtesans? Probably not.

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