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Five minutes of civilised calm, recorded in the peace of the English countryside. Sign up at https://marcsalmanac.substack.com

With a poem by TS Eliot, and extract from East Coker.

"I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope

For hope would be hope for the wrong thing...
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From the show:

Silas Marner by George Eliot

On this day: 28th May, 1883 – the architect of Portmeirion, Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis is born in Gayton, Northamptonshire

On this day: 28th May, 1936 – Alan Turing submits his groundbreaking paper On Computable Numbers, aged just 24

Music to wake you up – Hand in my Pocket by Alanis Morissette

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