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No 79 Reading Time : ~ 5 min words : ~

How I found a reference to an article about Sarah Orne Jewett in the letters of Edward Garnett and John Galsworthy.

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No 78 Reading Time : ~ 11 min words : ~ 1700

A short review of the crime novel "The Lady and the Law" by the Victorian writer William Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889).

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No 77 Reading Time : ~ 7 min words : ~ 1000

Today I had a lovely encounter with an elderly lady in my little village in Wuppertal. I helped her and we got talking.

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No 76 Reading Time : ~ 20 min words : ~ 3000

After the first really autumnal weekend, a quick look at my two gardens. Into the physical autumn garden here in Wuppertal and a look into my box of notes, in which some things have also matured on the subject of autumn in summer.

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No 75 Reading Time : ~ 2 min words : ~ 450

Shortly I will delete my account on Twitter.I'll request an archive one last time, then I'll delete my account from Twitter, like so many others before me.

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No 74 Reading Time : ~ 7 min words : ~ 1030

Today I wrote the thousandth entry in my note box. And I am very happy about this entry, which is about the contents of John Muir's backpack.

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No 73 Reading Time : ~ 20 min words : ~ 3100

Once again I ride the train and let my thoughts run free. I look at the land that spreads out before me and disappears again in the next moment.

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No 72 Reading Time : ~ 11 min words : ~ 1650

A small detailed and unsparing look at my desk on 26 February 2023.

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No 71 Reading Time : ~ 5 min words : ~ 900

A short note of excitement about a new acquisition, Ralph Waldo Emerson's diaries in a new translation by Jürgen Brôcan.

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No 69 Reading Time : ~ 5 min words : ~ 730

My review of the currently running French film comedy "Maria dreams", or the art of starting over, starring Karin Viard and Grégory Gadebois.

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No 68 Reading Time : ~ 16 min words : ~ 2500

It's no longer about the new, it's about the best. What was the best thing about the past year 2022? What do I remember fondly and what can last in memory against the tide of time?

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No 67 Reading Time : ~ 10 min words : ~ 1422

What does my new photo page have to do with Denis Diderot, the French superstar of the late Enlightenment? And why is the new design of the page to be understood adequately with Diderot's scarlet housecoat?

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No 66 Reading Time : ~ 8 min words : ~ 1100

On my site cronhill.de there is a new "old" page, the Photography page. From now on, I will show photos here that are close to my heart and that I find particularly successful.

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No 65 Reading Time : ~ 3 min words : ~ 580

How I got myself and the new blog sub-site into quite a predicament through a little carelessness.

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No 63 Reading Time : ~ 20 min words : ~ 2600

How can we overcome writer's block and turn what we see into an interesting story? How does it help us if we narrow our view further and further to a detail? And why does it help us to show the big picture again?

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No 61 Reading Time : ~ 13 min words : ~ 1900

In the state of play reports, I would like to edit content on a long-term and permanent basis. In this part, I would like to introduce the layout for the state of playreports and explain the history of their development.

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No 62 Reading Time : ~ 10 min words : ~ 1200

Lippincott's Monthly Magazine was a 19th-century literary magazine that cleverly managed to attract well-known authors as well.

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No 60 Reading Time : ~ 10 min words : ~ 1280

In diesem Beitrag geht es um die This post is about the overview of the available state of affairs reports. The design should clearly differ from the previous category pages.Übersicht über die verfügbaren Sachstandsberichte. Das Design sollte deutlich von den bisherigen Kategorienseiten abweichen.

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No 59 Reading Time : ~ 13 min words : ~ 2016

There is a new content format on my website, this is the state of affairs report. I'll explain what I was thinking, how it all came about and what I want to do with it.

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