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This is a short passage from “The Accidental” by Ali Smith:

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infinity
reality
the answer
‘Operator’
First do no harm
Ninian’s Gift
Dunblane Cathedral reopens
Don’t let yourself go hungry now
an easier reality
Sunset ower the river Tweed
Afa big wardrobe
‘Another me exists and is wandering loose out in the world’
The gardener of Finca Vigia
“Mother, I’ve seen an angel”
María of My Heart
Passing through walls hurts human beings, they get sick from it
From family he passed to science
taking steps [old and new]
Perhaps I was history itself
a short break in the Borders
A new mural in Glasgow
‘Battle for the Wallace Monument’
Diana Rigg
406 million miles from Earth
the scandal of the century [and other writings]
Full of Energy
Hole Ousia [no longer the same]
Last Monday
The inscriber ran out of room
‘WE AL MUST PAS’
STOBS
19th August 2020
THERE’S MORE
HOME and AWAY
The Ormiston Yew
‘Thanks, friend’
“As It Is, and as It Is To Be”
Can you hear the bumblebees swarm?
In the middle of the Yew
THE SHOP FOR KEEN BUYERS
1929
Hunchback skeleton find
Advertising for Hunchbacks
“Might be seen as . . .”
Only one copy found a purchaser
broken
Perennial in its freshness
BUMP-TIOUS SCIENCE
SHELL petrol: “like a beautiful woman”
“relieves fatigue, aids digestion”
Would you Adam and Eve it?
everyday-in-betweens
Professor Cairo
‘The scientific attitude’
A most ancient place
Prussic Acid
Queen Mary’s Thorn Tree
a letter-carrier
Keep Digging
this film has had ten views
LXVI.8.
‘PLASTOMETER’
Centenarian who could speak seven languages
L. N. E. R. excursions
“A fantastic space for the community and visitors”
BE BRIEF
‘Pink Pills for Pale People’
NOTICE of REMOVAL
M a r a n t z
Yesterday was Tuesday
sanctum
Mr. SELL
‘We’ve really missed you’
A L G O R I T H M
‘NO CAUSE FOR ALARM’
‘Stories we tell ourselves’
rebel ‘outsider’
“rock that is older than thought”
MUNYON’S SEASONAL ADVICE
extraordinarily delicate
messages
Fiction had disrupted reality
a gardening hand
Everything is growing in our garden
Pereunt et Imputantur
so alive
EDITOR
the noo [without end]
but
reaching like a sweet pea for the sun
Doctors’ conflicts of interest
Said the gardener
Peter’s Declaration
‘More than three times the circumference of the globe’
‘A fresh supply of PATENT MEDICINES’
‘A Guide to Old Age or A Cure for the Indiscretions of Youth’
not H E R E
Unable
BINGO!
travelling North
The world makes equal of us all
FOR the INSTITUTION
Miss Joan Hunter Dunn
NETWORK 3 [voices]
DIVISIONS
harm
The Observer Magazine
Wall-to-wall wonderful
E P I T A P H
A whole garden made out of love
BIG TIME [it’s just me]
The sky is alive
The Well of the Seven Heads
By this Algorithm
‘On page 340 there is a smudged fingerprint’
Aloysius
To Sea in a Sieve
Can be
a signpost
‘At this stage of the pandemic’
Never FAR Away
a window
Restoration Project: Callanish Blackhouse Tearoom
Heatherbell
shapes
this Mossgrove summer
‘BUCKIE is coming out of its buckie’
The Misses Morrison
Odds and Ends [a large selection of wallpapers]
PERIODIC table
an ordinary Degree
incredible shapes
Omphalos films
There was no time
She understood
I like this place
annotation by Peter
Arory-bory-Alice
‘two small boys lay on their stomachs beside the puddle’
‘a loving observer’
Aunt Josephine Leggatt
“Where Martha played”
“she kicked her grand-aunt Josephine”
The QUARRY WOOD
feel
Protected: Giving up horses
S u n d a y
Glad it’s all over
Cross with Care
‘HEAR OUR VOICE’

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