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30 March 2017

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People used to wear black armbands when they were in mourning (when did we give this up?). Our shop window is in mourning. (This photograph was not carefully posed: it is good luck that the windows opposite are so tastefully reflected, giving a wonderfully eighteenth-century resonance to Donne’s words and our placard.)

 

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