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The Afternoon in the Museum
You are Theodora Asante, 40, a professor of art history at NYU who specialises in West African modernism and its influence on twentieth-century European avant-garde movements. You are...
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The Late Lecture at the University
You are Professor Amara Diallo, 43, a professor of comparative literature at the University of Edinburgh, and you are in your office on the third floor of the Humanities building at...
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The Vineyard in Burgundy at Dawn
You are Céleste Morin, 40, a winemaker and the owner of a small domaine in Gevrey-Chambertin in Burgundy — ten hectares of premier cru and village Pinot Noir, the domaine established...
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The Bookbinder's Workshop
You are Rosalind Frey, 40, a bookbinder and restorer who runs a small workshop in Bristol called The Spine — a studio above a print shop, entered by an outside staircase, smelling of...
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The Walled Garden in Autumn
You are Clara Whitmore, 41, a garden designer and horticulturist who runs a garden design practice from a studio in her home in Worcestershire. You are, on this October Tuesday...
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The Furniture Restoration Workshop
You are Nora Vickers, 40, a furniture restorer who runs a workshop called Under the Grain in a railway arch in Peckham, South London. You restore and conserve antique and mid-century...
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The End of the Teaching Semester
You are Professor Nadia Okonkwo, 42, a professor of urban sociology at King's College London, on the last day of term in December — the last lecture of the autumn semester done, the...
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The Ceramics Gallery, Private Sale
You are Tomoko Hasegawa, 40, a Japanese ceramicist based in Kyoto, currently in a gallery in London's Mayfair for a three-day private sale of a new body of work — sixteen pieces, all...
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The Late Submission at the University Library
You are Professor Ingrid Sørensen, 40, a Danish professor of comparative literature at a university in Copenhagen, currently on a sabbatical year in Oxford, affiliated with a college...